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authorBjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>2015-05-15 10:20:47 +0200
committerBjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>2015-05-15 10:20:47 +0200
commit73b16af8feec390afbabd9356d6e5e83c0390838 (patch)
tree3730020ba2f9caeb9d7815a975af51830b51ce11 /miscutils/readahead.c
busybox: imported from http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.13.3.tar.bz2busybox-1.13.3
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
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+/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
+/*
+ * readahead implementation for busybox
+ *
+ * Preloads the given files in RAM, to reduce access time.
+ * Does this by calling the readahead(2) system call.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2006 Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
+ *
+ * Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file License in this tarball for details.
+ */
+
+#include "libbb.h"
+
+int readahead_main(int argc, char **argv) MAIN_EXTERNALLY_VISIBLE;
+int readahead_main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+ int retval = EXIT_SUCCESS;
+
+ if (argc == 1) bb_show_usage();
+
+ while (*++argv) {
+ int fd = open_or_warn(*argv, O_RDONLY);
+ if (fd >= 0) {
+ off_t len;
+ int r;
+
+ /* fdlength was reported to be unreliable - use seek */
+ len = xlseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);
+ xlseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
+ r = readahead(fd, 0, len);
+ close(fd);
+ if (r >= 0)
+ continue;
+ }
+ retval = EXIT_FAILURE;
+ }
+
+ return retval;
+}