From: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Replace lseek..write/read to pwrite/pread Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 12:07:05 +0800 > In original code there are many operations read from /write to specific > positions of a file. This series of patches replace such patterns to > pread/pwrite calls, reduces more than 100 lines of code. > I'm now writing pthread support patch set and it will naturally include pread/pwrite like this patch set. It sounds to me that using pread/pwrite only to reduce lseek code is weak in motivation. Is there another visible merit? For example, any kind of performance improvement. I guess it's small even if exists compared to I/O. -- Thanks. HATAYAMA, Daisuke