MADV_DONTNEED
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Linux libc implementations all have to special case it in posix_madvise to make it a no-op since it doesn't conform to the POSIX semantics. Curious how this was botched so badly. Linux finally has MADV_FREE for private, anonymous mappings though.
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You may enjoy this talk - TL;DW it came from copying Tru64
