Subject: Re: letting userland issue FUA writes
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/19/2006 19:07:06
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On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 07:02:09PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>=20
> On Mar 17, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>=20
> >Just to be clear, we're talking about not having an equivalent to
> >pread/pwrite? I can live with that.
>=20
> I suggested "preadx" and "pwritex" -- specifically p* variants.  I'm =20
> agnostic about whether or not non-p variants are actually desired.

I'm sorry, I was unclear. My question was if we want both iovec and=20
non-iovec versions.

Since we are adding flags, the "p"/"non-p*" variants collapse into a flag=
=20
being set or cleared. :-)

Take care,

Bill

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