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su: cleanery * make help message more like others * s/TT\.(.)Argu/TT.\1/g * move environ to toys.h * simplify failure messages * clear password before quit * not check what execve returns * -lc
author Strake <strake888@gmail.com>
date Sat, 17 Aug 2013 02:54:58 -0500
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/* readahead.c - preload files into disk cache.
 *
 * Copyright 2013 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
 *
 * No standard.

USE_READAHEAD(NEWTOY(readahead, NULL, TOYFLAG_BIN))

config READAHEAD
  bool "readahead"
  default y
  help
    usage: readahead FILE...

    Preload files into disk cache.
*/

#include "toys.h"

#include <sys/syscall.h>

static void do_readahead(int fd, char *name)
{
  int rc;

  // Since including fcntl.h doesn't give us the wrapper, use the syscall.
  // 32 bits takes LO/HI offset (we don't care about endianness of 0).
  if (sizeof(long) == 4) rc = syscall(__NR_readahead, fd, 0, 0, INT_MAX);
  else rc = syscall(__NR_readahead, fd, 0, INT_MAX);

  if (rc) perror_msg("readahead: %s", name);
}

void readahead_main(void)
{
  loopfiles(toys.optargs, do_readahead);
}