On Fri 2008-12-12 20:56:00, 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? ltrace and strace would show different values; very misleading :-(. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
