On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:56:00PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Russell King wrote: > >> should be similar to pread/pwrite, e.g: > >> > >> int preadv(fd, iovec, iovec_size, offset) > > > > Yes, and that's easy for glibc to achieve. > > This hints the ABI problem exists at syscall level only. Is that > correct? So we can have > > preadv(fd, vec, vlen, off) > > argument ordering at app <-> glibc level and > > preadv(fd, vec, off, vlen) > > ordering at glibc <-> kernel (aka syscall) level and it works fine for > ARM + MIPS + PARISC? Fine for ARM - and yes, the user visible API should be changed from the BSD standard. I don't think anyone in this thread was suggesting that the user visible argument ordering should be any different from the original. Having it in a different order from *BSD at the libc visible interface is just crazy from the OS portability point of view. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
