From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 2/5] Define new syscalls readv2,preadv2,writev2,pwritev2
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 03:52:20 -0700
Message-ID: <20140919105220.GC14281@infradead.org>
References: <cover.1410983998.git.milosz@adfin.com>
 <a5d46efa590f0d32cf209495cdb897ffadb859c5.1410983999.git.milosz@adfin.com>
 <20140918184823.GA10155@birch.djwong.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Cc: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@sernet.de>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Return-path: <owner-linux-aio@kvack.org>
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20140918184823.GA10155@birch.djwong.org>
Sender: owner-linux-aio@kvack.org
List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org

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.

--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-aio' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org.  For more info on Linux AIO,
see: http://www.kvack.org/aio/
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"aart@kvack.org">aart@kvack.org</a>