On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 02:47, Chris Browne wrote: > Another thing that would be valuable would be to have some way to say: > > "Read this data; don't bother throwing other data out of the cache > to stuff this in." This is similar, although not exactly the same thing: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/posix_fadvise.html POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE Specifies that the application expects to access the specified data once and then not reuse it thereafter. -Neil
