Re: compat_linux and AIO

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:01:47PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
 > I am playing with oracle XE on 6.0_RC2 and ktrace tells me that this
 > requires Linux aio_* system calls.
 > 
 > Here is the documentation:
 > http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aio.html
 > 
 > Abd the system call man pages:
 > http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/io_setup.2.html
 > http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/io_submit.2.html
 > http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/io_getevents.2.html
 > http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/io_cancel.2.html
 > http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/io_destroy.2.html
 > 
 > How difficult would this be to implement? Anyone has ideas on it?

Getting AIO working natively first would be a good step. :(

(I have a program that fails if you're interested.)

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David A. Holland
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