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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:16:38 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Heads up: glibc preadv emulation breaks qemu on
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:28:57AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >Yes.  The BSDs tend to not play stupid emulation games in the libc, so
> >changes of these kinds of messups to happen are far less.
> >   
> 
> In all fairness, I seem to recall there being a problem with the kernel 
> implementation of preadv/pwritev too.

I would be surprised by that as it's just an entirely trivial entry
point to long existant infrastructure.  I even checked the commit logs
and that code hasn't been touched at all since the initial commit.
So if people have problems with it, please report it..