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authorFilipe David Manana <[email protected]>2010-04-26 13:04:40 +0200
committerRaimo Niskanen <[email protected]>2010-05-20 15:48:17 +0200
commit21a67b797e40df930b83bd407ffc165b3f4b91b2 (patch)
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Add file:advise/4 - a wrapper to the POSIX syscall posix_fadvise
Useful for informing the Operating System about the access pattern for a file's data, so that it can adapt the caching strategy to maximize disk IO performance.
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diff --git a/erts/emulator/drivers/common/erl_efile.h b/erts/emulator/drivers/common/erl_efile.h
index 6821a0e2ee..61684af6c9 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/drivers/common/erl_efile.h
+++ b/erts/emulator/drivers/common/erl_efile.h
@@ -151,3 +151,5 @@ int efile_altname(Efile_error* errInfo, char *name,
int efile_link(Efile_error* errInfo, char* old, char* new);
int efile_symlink(Efile_error* errInfo, char* old, char* new);
int efile_may_openfile(Efile_error* errInfo, char *name);
+int efile_fadvise(Efile_error* errInfo, int fd, Sint64 offset, Sint64 length,
+ int advise);