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Disallow fcntl(F_READAHEAD) when the vnode is not a regular file.
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Authored by markj on Oct 1 2019, 8:19 PM.
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f_iosize is 0 for devfs vnodes, resulting in a divide by zero if one
calls, for example, fcntl(STDIN_FILENO, F_READAHEAD, 4096).

The sequential heuristic is not applied to I/O to or from device files,
and posix_fadvise(2) returns an error for v_type != VREG, so do the same
here too.

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