linux-kernel - Something like POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED for metadata needed

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <AANLkTi=OK1U10i7_07PkCZc2zgno-jpEaqYMa+9eWY1W@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:10:22 +0300
From:	John Lepikhin <johnlepikhin@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Something like POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED for metadata needed

Hello,

I want to read a huge number of directories listings without resetting
the current buffers. Is there some kind of analogue of the flag
POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED to prohibit caching inodes and directory listing?


Thank you.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/