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fadvise

fadvise(5)							File Formats Manual							fadvise(5)

NAME

       fadvise: fadvise.h - structures needed when using the fadvise() function

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       The header defines the structures and and other literals needed when using the function (see fadvise(2)).

       The structure contains the following members:

       int		  fad_count	 number of entries in fad_plist[]
       struct fad_parms   fad_plist[1]	 array of struct fad_parms

       The structure contains the following members:

       enum fadv_hints	 fad_advice   hint applying to parameter tuple.
       off_t		 _fad_res1    may  be  one of the following: byte
				      offset of  range	in  file;  memory
				      allocation  policy for cc-numa sys-
				      tems.
       size_t		 _fad_res2    may be one of the  following:  byte
				      size   of  range	in  file;  memory
				      locality to be used when allocating
				      memory   on  cc-numa  systems;  the
				      duration after which a  dirty  page
				      is  to  be written to the file sys-
				      tem.

APPLICATION USAGE

       The following macros and aliases have been defined to align with the ISO POSIX-1 standard.

       The following aliases can be used with the hint.

       The following aliases can be used with the hint.

       The following aliases can be used with the hint.

EXAMPLES

WARNINGS

       For 32-bit applications, will be truncated to its least significant 32-bits for file systems that use 64-bit values.

SEE ALSO

       fadvise(2), fcntl(2), posix_fadvise(2), fcntl(5), types(5).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

																	fadvise(5)