POSIX_FADVISE(2) |
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POSIX_FADVISE(2) |
NAME
posix_fadvise —
give advice about use of file data
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include < fcntl.h>
int
posix_fadvise( int fd, off_t offset, off_t len, int advice);
DESCRIPTION
The
posix_fadvise() system call allows a process to describe to the system its data access behavior for an open file descriptor
fd. The advice covers the data starting at offset
offset and continuing for
len bytes. If
len is zero, all data from
offset to the end of the file is covered.
The behavior is specified by the advice parameter and may be one of:
-
POSIX_FADV_NORMAL
-
Tells the system to revert to the default data access behavior.
-
POSIX_FADV_RANDOM
-
Is a hint that file data will be accessed randomly, and prefetching is likely not advantageous.
-
POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL
-
Tells the system that file data will be accessed sequentially. This currently does nothing as the default behavior uses heuristics to detect sequential behavior.
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POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED
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Tells the system that the specified data will be accessed in the near future. The system may initiate an asynchronous read of the data if it is not already present in memory.
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POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED
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Tells the system that the specified data will not be accessed in the near future. The system may decrease the in-memory priority of clean data within the specified range and future access to this data may require a read operation.
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POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE
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Tells the system that the specified data will only be accessed once and then not reused. The system may decrease the in-memory priority of data once it has been read or written. Future access to this data may require a read operation.
RETURN VALUES
The
posix_fadvise() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable
errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The
posix_fadvise() system call returns zero on success, and an error on failure:
-
[
EBADF]
-
The
fd argument is not a valid file descriptor.
-
[
EINVAL]
-
The
advice argument is not valid.
-
[
EINVAL]
-
The
offset or
len arguments are negative, or
offset +
len is greater than the maximum file size.
-
[
ENODEV]
-
The
fd argument does not refer to a regular file.
-
[
ESPIPE]
-
The
fd argument is associated with a pipe or FIFO.
STANDARDS
The
posix_fadvise() interface conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”).
HISTORY
The
posix_fadvise() system call first appeared in
FreeBSD 9.1.