Andrew Morton wrote:
Ray Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


We did it this way because it was easier to get it into SLES9 that way. But there is no particular reason that we couldn't use a system call. It's just that we figured adding system calls is hard.


aarggh.  This is why you should target kernel.org kernels first.  Now we
risk ending up with poor old suse carrying an obsolete interface and
application developers have to be able to cater for both interfaces.


I agree, but time-to-market decisions overrode that. Anyway, everyone uses a program called "bcfree" to actually do the buffer-cache freeing, so changing the interface is not as bad as all that.

Let us put something together along these lines and we will get back to you.

Thanks,
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Best Regards,
Ray
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