So what exactly is so promising about Linux Kernel 4.5?
Aside from that, madvise() has received support for the MADV_FREE flag.
In the end, I obviously decided not to, but it could have gone either way.
And on the whole, everything here is pretty small.
Another key area in which Linux Kernel 4.5 brings an improvement is the addition of a copy_file_range system.
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