Hello Manfred, On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Manfred Schwarb <manfred99@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > for POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED, syncing with fsync(2) or fdatasync(2) is recommended in > the man page of posix_fadvise(2). > However, for this task sync_file_range(2) is probably best suited, as it > is fast and has the same granularity as posix_fadvise(2). > akpm also used sync_file_range(2) for his user space helpers: > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/pagecache-management/pagecache-management/pagecache-management.c > > So I suggest to add sync_file_range(2) to the list of mentioned sync functions. Thanks. Done, for man-pages-3.25. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
