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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-05-18 16:06:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-05-18 16:06:42 +0000 |
| commit | a1d5f77cc8a41c7c0ba751140e31b8b0e71fd091 (patch) | |
| tree | f55287808a115d93eb00615d65ca49ab9257bcf9 /man2/posix_fadvise.2 | |
| parent | 09a1235aaebbdd25fb974ab31e8bcdcf77e49031 (diff) | |
Reordered sections to be more consistent, in some cases renaming
sections or shifting paragraphs between sections.
Diffstat (limited to 'man2/posix_fadvise.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/posix_fadvise.2 | 23 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man2/posix_fadvise.2 b/man2/posix_fadvise.2 index 34c6742b3..899500fff 100644 --- a/man2/posix_fadvise.2 +++ b/man2/posix_fadvise.2 @@ -83,11 +83,21 @@ An invalid value was specified for \fIadvice\fP. .B ESPIPE The specified file descriptor refers to a pipe or FIFO. (Linux actually returns EINVAL in this case.) -.SH NOTES +.SH VERSIONS .BR posix_fadvise () appeared in kernel 2.5.60. .\" Actually as fadvise64() -- MTK - +.SH "CONFORMING TO" +POSIX.1-2001. +Note that the type of the +.I len +parameter was changed from +.I size_t +to +.I off_t +in POSIX.1-2003 TC1. +.SH NOTES +VERSIONS Under Linux, \fBPOSIX_FADV_NORMAL\fP sets the readahead window to the default size for the backing device; \fBPOSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL\fP doubles this size, and \fBPOSIX_FADV_RANDOM\fP disables file readahead entirely. @@ -120,15 +130,6 @@ call or .BR fdatasync (2) first. -.SH "CONFORMING TO" -POSIX.1-2001. -Note that the type of the -.I len -parameter was changed from -.I size_t -to -.I off_t -in POSIX.1-2003 TC1. .SH BUGS In kernels before 2.6.6, if .I len |