Stefan Huelswitt wrote: > On 05 Nov 2005 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>I compile and run it on SUSE 8.2, kernel 2.4.20, glibc 2.3.2, gcc version 3.3 20030226. > > > Hmm, as far as I see, not even kernel 2.4.32rc1 has support for > the fadvise syscall. > > Have you ever checked the return value of posix_fadvise on your > system? > > I guess your glibc simply do nothing and return an error? > Or? Well, I didn't actually test whether the actual effect of no more trashing the cache happens - all I did was to put this stuff into the cUnbufferedFile class and make sure it compiles and doesn't break the original functionality. Since the function declarations are present on my system I guessed it should work. But maybe this was a dummy in the 2.4 kernel... Klaus
