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

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Date:   Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:22:20 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, 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

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