nginx 0.8.25 *) Change: now no message is written in an error log if a variable is not found by $r->variable() method. *) Feature: the ngx_http_degradation_module. *) Feature: regular expression named captures. *) Feature: now URI part is not required a "proxy_pass" directive if variables are used. *) Feature: now the "msie_padding" directive works for Chrome too. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process on low memory condition; the bug had appeared in 0.8.18. *) Bugfix: nginx sent gzipped responses to clients those do not support gzip, if "gzip_static on" and "gzip_vary off"; the bug had appeared in 0.8.16.

--- a/src/os/unix/ngx_files.c
+++ b/src/os/unix/ngx_files.c
@@ -402,6 +402,26 @@ ngx_unlock_fd(ngx_fd_t fd)
 }
 
 
+#if (NGX_HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE)
+
+ngx_int_t
+ngx_read_ahead(ngx_fd_t fd, size_t n)
+{
+    int  err;
+
+    err = posix_fadvise(fd, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL);
+
+    if (err == 0) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    ngx_set_errno(err);
+    return NGX_FILE_ERROR;
+}
+
+#endif
+
+
 #if (NGX_HAVE_O_DIRECT)
 
 ngx_int_t