linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/36] aio: implement io

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Message-ID: <x49muz2pxwq.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:30:29 -0400
From:   Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, Avi Kivity <avi@...lladb.com>,
        linux-aio@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/36] aio: implement io_pgetevents

Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 07:12:41PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
>> > Note that unlike many other signal related calls we do not pass a sigmask
>> > size, as that would get us to 7 arguments, which aren't easily supported
>> > by the syscall infrastructure.  It seems a lot less painful to just add a
>> > new syscall variant in the unlikely case we're going to increase the
>> > sigset size.
>> 
>> I'm assuming there's a proposed manpage update for this somewhere? :)
>
> In this commit:
>
> http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/libaio.git/commitdiff/49f77d595210393ce7b125cb00233cf737402f56

BTW, the man pages are shipped in the man-pages package, now.
Christoph, I can forward the change to Michael after this series goes
in.  Just let me know what's easiest for you.

Cheers,
Jeff