Re: [SPAM?] Re: Asynchronous I/O Support

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:53:23PM -0700, Ron Mayer wrote:
> Anyway, for those who want to see what they do in Linux,
> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/lxr/source/mm/fadvise.c
> Pretty scary that Bruce said it could make older linuxes
> dump core - there isn't a lot of code there.

The bug was probably in the glibc interface to the kernel. Google found
this:

http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2004-03/msg00000.html

i.e. posix_fadvise appears to have been broken on all 64-bit
architechtures prior to March 2004 due to a silly linking error.

And then things like this:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313219

Which suggest that prior to glibc 2.3.5, posix_fadvise crashed on 2.4
kernels. That's a fairly recent version, so the bug would still be
fairly widespead.

Have a nice day,
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