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Re: Add madvise and mincore

To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
Subject: Re: Add madvise and mincore
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 17 Mar 2000 10:47:42 -0800
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <u8og8ekphk.fsf@gromit.rhein-neckar.de>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:

> Linux 2.3.99pre1 (and pre2-1) add madvise and mincore syscalls.  I'm
> appending a patch for glibc to support these.  I didn't add MADV_FREE
> for Sparc since it's not implemented in the kernel.  Sparc folks,
> please check wether it's needed.

I've added the patch you sent but it seems not to be correct.  First,
you did modify the SPARC file.  Alos, is this stuff not implemented
for anything but x86 and SPARC?

The prototype is in sys/mman.h now (this is where I think it belongs).
We might have to add an appropriate stub file.

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