Using madvise for ld.so

[Dirk Mueller]

On Wednesday 17 March 2004 20:23, Lubos Lunak wrote:

>  I have a somewhat opposite question, related to the 'yet more preloading'
> post. Just like this ld.so patch (and the hack that started this) speeds up
> loading of large binaries by loading them sequentially in a large chunk, is
> there some possibility to do the equivalent for inodes?

I once heard that some tools use the trick of accessing files in inode-number 
order. I'm not aware how you can retrieve the inode (like for stat order) 
without stat'ing though..


Dirk