Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC, PATCH] Extensible AIO interface | Date | Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:34:33 -0700 |
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Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> writes:
> So, I and other people keep running into things where we really need to > add an interface to pass some auxiliary... stuff along with a pread() or > pwrite().
How would you enumerate this? How does the application know what the underlying stack supports/need? How is versioning handled?
Frankly, in this form it looks more like a special purpose hack than a general facility.
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
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