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

[Russell King]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:56:00PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> 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?

Fine for ARM - and yes, the user visible API should be changed from the
BSD standard.  I don't think anyone in this thread was suggesting that
the user visible argument ordering should be any different from the
original.

Having it in a different order from *BSD at the libc visible interface
is just crazy from the OS portability point of view.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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