Correct me if I'm wrong. I think he's talking about posix_fadvise() [1], which lets you pre declare access patterns for an fd. And you're talking about madvise(

Correct me if I'm wrong. I think he's talking about posix_fadvise() [1], which lets you pre declare access patterns for an fd. And you're talking about madvise() [2]. [1]: http://linux.die.net/man/2/posix_fadvise http://linux.die.net/man/2/posix_fadvise [2]: http://linux.die.net/man/2/madvise http://linux.die.net/man/2/madvise