Re: [PATCH v2] Add preadv and pwritev system calls.

[Gerd Hoffmann]

Russell King wrote:
>> should be similar to pread/pwrite, e.g:
>>
>>     int preadv(fd, iovec, iovec_size, offset)
> 
> Yes, and that's easy for glibc to achieve.

This hints the ABI problem exists at syscall level only.  Is that
correct?  So we can have

	preadv(fd, vec, vlen, off)

argument ordering at app <-> glibc level and

	preadv(fd, vec, off, vlen)

ordering at glibc <-> kernel (aka syscall) level and it works fine for
ARM + MIPS + PARISC?

thanks,
  Gerd


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