From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759230AbYLLQCa (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:02:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757520AbYLLQCW (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:02:22 -0500 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:43506 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757280AbYLLQCV (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:02:21 -0500 Message-ID: <49428AFD.5090009@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:02:05 +0100 From: Gerd Hoffmann User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081119) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Wilcox CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Ulrich Drepper Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add preadv and pwritev system calls. References: <1229090440-32120-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <20081212152929.GM26095@parisc-linux.org> <494287D4.2070909@redhat.com> <20081212155113.GO26095@parisc-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20081212155113.GO26095@parisc-linux.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On the other hand, NetBSD have approximately 0% market share. > We shouldn't let them lock us into making a bad decision. Is there > anyone other than NetBSD who has added these syscalls? Free- and OpenBSD have it too. For Solaris I've found a feature request only. Dunno about MacOS/Darwin. Other un*xes which are important these days? I'd *really* hate it to have the same system call with different argument ordering on different systems though. Especially when swapping two integer values, so gcc wouldn't error out on wrong usage. cheers, Gerd