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-rw-r--r--configure.ac3
-rw-r--r--src/xz/file_io.c15
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 35720fef..720315f0 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -517,6 +517,9 @@ gl_GETOPT
# Find the best function to set timestamps.
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([futimens futimes futimesat utimes utime], [break])
+# This is nice to have but not mandatory.
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([posix_fadvise])
+
TUKLIB_PROGNAME
TUKLIB_INTEGER
TUKLIB_PHYSMEM
diff --git a/src/xz/file_io.c b/src/xz/file_io.c
index 09edcca6..56acf3bd 100644
--- a/src/xz/file_io.c
+++ b/src/xz/file_io.c
@@ -294,6 +294,10 @@ io_open_src_real(file_pair *pair)
#ifdef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
setmode(STDIN_FILENO, O_BINARY);
#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE
+ // It will fail if stdin is a pipe and that's fine.
+ (void)posix_fadvise(STDIN_FILENO, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL);
+#endif
return false;
}
@@ -497,6 +501,17 @@ io_open_src_real(file_pair *pair)
}
#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE
+ const int fadvise_ret = posix_fadvise(
+ pair->src_fd, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL);
+
+ // It shouldn't fail, but if it does anyway, it doesn't matter.
+ // Check it with an assertion so that if something gets messed
+ // up in the future, it will get caught when debugging is enabled.
+ assert(fadvise_ret == 0);
+ (void)fadvise_ret;
+#endif
+
return false;
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