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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/7] Define new syscalls readv2,preadv2,writev2,pwritev2
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 12:05:23PM -0400, Milosz Tanski wrote:
> Theodore,
>
> I might be missing understanding something, but... I already omitted
> read2 and write2 which can be implemented in userspace by libc (as you
> pointed out). In the case of readv vs. preadv there's an extra
> positional argument (file offset) and preadv version doesn't change
> the file location. I didn't want to overload the meaning of preadv2 to
> take a special negative offset value that uses the current file
> position but also changes the file position.

off_t has to be signed, so having a magic negative value doesn't
bother me that much. Or you could use a flag bitvalue which means to
use the fd's offset and to ignore the positional value. (More
bike-shedding :-)

The main reason why I mention it is we have a huge number of
read/write syscalls already, and if we add yet another to support
scatter-gather lists on the memory side, we'll be adding another
factor of two more read/write system calls. So the suggestion was one
of trying to (probably fruitlessly) trying to stem the expnoential
increase in read/write system calls. :-)

Cheers,


- Ted


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