Re: [RFC v2 2/5] Define new syscalls readv2,preadv2,writev2,pwritev2

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Sep 19 2014 - 06:52:28 EST


On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:48:23AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> A few months ago I was working on extending these interfaces (well, the
> p{read,write}* ones and AIO) to tack on an IO extension buffer at the end of
> the syscall arguments.

Honestly, that proposal is so but ugly that I treated it as an April
first joke. I don't really think we want any of that overload mess.
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