Re: vfs changes for pread/pwrite

Jens-Uwe Mager (jum@anubis.han.de)
Mon, 13 Oct 1997 22:05:45 GMT

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In article <mng==19971013010747.44182@dot.cygnus.com>, Richard Henderson
<rth@cygnus.com> wrote:

> Single Unix adds two new system calls, pread and pwrite, that take
> an extra argument for the location to do the I/O. The "p" stands
> for "positioned" I guess.

What I am wondering is why did they leave out preadv and pwritev? Probably
these people do not like scatter/gather I/O, they left out putmsgv and
getmsgv as well.

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