linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 2/5] Define new syscalls readv2,preadv2,writev2,pwritev2

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Message-ID: <20140919105220.GC14281@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2014 03:52:20 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	Milosz Tanski <milosz@...in.com>, 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>, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 2/5] Define new syscalls readv2,preadv2,writev2,pwritev2

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:48:23AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> A few months ago I was working on extending these interfaces (well, the
> p{read,write}* ones and AIO) to tack on an IO extension buffer at the end of
> the syscall arguments.

Honestly, that proposal is so but ugly that I treated it as an April
first joke.  I don't really think we want any of that overload mess.
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