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DateFri, 12 Dec 2008 10:03:47 -0700
FromMatthew Wilcox <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] Add preadv and pwritev system calls.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 05:02:05PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> 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.

We can always permute it further:

int fd, int vlen, loff_t pos, const struct *

--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."


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