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POSIX_FADV_VOLATILE

POSIX_FADV_VOLATILE

Posted Dec 1, 2011 6:22 UTC (Thu) by kevinm (guest, #69913)
Parent article: POSIX_FADV_VOLATILE

Pagecache pages are shared between processes.

What happens if a page I've dirtied happens to lie in a range marked volatile by another process - can my changes still be lost?


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