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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] experimental native preadv/pwritev
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:38:24PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> See $patch I've hacked up a while ago.  I think it already ran over the
> list a while ago, /me was waiting for the preadv kernel patches hitting
> mainline before trying to re-submit with the final syscall numbers and
> the warning removed.
> 
> It provides qemu_p{read,write}v() functions.  Adds autoconf check for
> *BSD, does linux syscall windup, runtime check and emulation for old
> kernels.

Cool, I had missed that one.  I'll throw it into the next version of the
series that will go out once I'd either had a defintive NACK on the
plain iovec APIs or someone backing up my point.