From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerd Hoffmann Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add preadv and pwritev system calls. Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:02:05 +0100 Message-ID: <49428AFD.5090009@redhat.com> References: <1229090440-32120-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <20081212152929.GM26095@parisc-linux.org> <494287D4.2070909@redhat.com> <20081212155113.GO26095@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:43506 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757280AbYLLQCV (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:02:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081212155113.GO26095@parisc-linux.org> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Ulrich Drepper Matthew Wilcox wrote: > 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? Free- and OpenBSD have it too. For Solaris I've found a feature request only. Dunno about MacOS/Darwin. Other un*xes which are important these days? 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. cheers, Gerd