Re: aio

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 19:55:19 EST


Followup to: <3C213270.966DABFE@zip.com.au>
By author: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> The aio_* functions are part of POSIX and SUS, so merely reserving
> system call numbers for them does not seems a completely dumb
> thing to do, IMO.
>

Yes, it is, unless you already have a design for how to map the aio_*
library functions onto system calls.

        -hpa

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