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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Scott Lurndal <scott.lurndal@3leafsystems.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add preadv and pwritev system calls.
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:19:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081214181943.GB1440@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4942C1D0.1080009@redhat.com>

On Fri 2008-12-12 20:56:00, 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?

ltrace and strace would show different values; very misleading :-(.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-15 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-12 14:00 [PATCH v2] Add preadv and pwritev system calls Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-12 15:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-12 15:48   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-12 15:51     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-12 16:02       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-12 17:03         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-12 18:21           ` Alan Cox
2008-12-12 19:02             ` Russell King
2008-12-12 18:29         ` Scott Lurndal
2008-12-12 19:07           ` Russell King
2008-12-12 19:56             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-12 19:56               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-12 20:12               ` Russell King
2008-12-12 20:39                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-12 20:39                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-14 18:19               ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-12-15 16:37         ` Jennifer Pioch
2008-12-15 20:43           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-16  9:57             ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-12-17  1:45               ` [osol-code] " Dan Mick
2008-12-17  1:45                 ` Dan Mick
2008-12-12 19:47   ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-12-12 20:02     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-14 11:49   ` Heiko Carstens
2008-12-15  4:14   ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-15  6:20     ` David Miller
2008-12-12 15:40 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-12-12 16:59 ` Russell King
2008-12-13  1:18 ` Michael Kerrisk

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