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

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Date:	Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:54:03 -0400
From:	Milosz Tanski <milosz@...in.com>
To:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.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

Good point. I will put the shared functionality in a static function.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com> wrote:
> 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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