Re: [RFC, PATCH] Extensible AIO interface

[Andi Kleen]

Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> So, I and other people keep running into things where we really need to
> add an interface to pass some auxiliary... stuff along with a pread() or
> pwrite().

How would you enumerate this? 
How does the application know what the underlying stack supports/need?
How is versioning handled?

Frankly, in this form it looks more like a special purpose hack than a general
facility. 

-Andi

-- 
ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/