posix_madvise.c

/* Copyright (C) 2007-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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#include <sysdep.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>


int
posix_madvise (void *addr, size_t len, int advice)
{
  /* We have one problem: the kernel's MADV_DONTNEED does not
     correspond to POSIX's POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED.  The former simply
     discards changes made to the memory without writing it back to
     disk, if this would be necessary.  The POSIX behavior does not
     allow this.  There is no functionality mapping the POSIX behavior
     so far so we ignore that advice for now.  */
  if (advice == POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED)
    return 0;

  INTERNAL_SYSCALL_DECL (err);
  int result = INTERNAL_SYSCALL (madvise, err, 3, addr, len, advice);
  return INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO (result, err);
}