linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] Define new syscalls readv2,preadv2,writev2,pwritev2

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Date:	Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:20:32 -0400
From:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To:	Milosz Tanski <milosz@...in.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-aio@...ck.org,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@...net.de>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] Define new syscalls readv2,preadv2,writev2,pwritev2

Milosz Tanski <milosz@...in.com> writes:

> New syscalls with an extra flag argument. For now all flags except for 0 are
> not supported.

The blatant copy-n-paste of the vectored functions bothers me.  I'll
withold judgement until I've seen your next version of the patch series,
though.

Cheers,
Jeff
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