From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:15:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:15:19 -0400 Received: from lsmls01.we.mediaone.net ([24.130.1.20]:45478 "EHLO lsmls01.we.mediaone.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:15:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3B951AA1.648DBB44@kegel.com> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:17:05 -0700 From: Dan Kegel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: new solaris syscall: sendfilev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Solaris 8 update 7/01 documents a new system call, sendfilev, which is like a cross between sendfile and writev. A copy of the man page is at http://www.kegel.com/sendfilev.txt The question immediately comes up - is there an aio version? I haven't seen one. Come to think of it, has anyone thought what an aio version of plain old writev would look like? lio_listio() is *unordered*, but writev is ordered. I wonder if something like lio_ordered_listio() would be useful, or if that's just so complicated it should be done in userland anyway. - Dan -- "I have seen the future, and it licks itself clean." -- Bucky Katt