Re: [PATCH v2] Add preadv and pwritev system calls.

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 04:48:36PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hmm.  It is the argument ordering used by NetBSD, thats why I used that
> too.  It certainly should be the application-visible ordering.  We'll
> have glibc between apps and kernel though, so I think we can reorder the
> arguments at syscall level if that helps on these archs.  Cc'ing Ulrich
> Drepper for comments on that.

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?

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operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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