[PATCH/RFC] readahead applet

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Mon Aug 21 16:18:07 UTC 2006


On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 11:53:09AM +0200, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 07:01:13PM +0200, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >The attached patch against busybox 1.2.1 adds a new "readahead" applet.
> 
> Sounds useful to me.

It does? Anyone care to explain how this is different/better than:

'nice -n 20 cat "$file" > /dev/null &'

??

Rich




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