Re: [RFC, PATCH] Extensible AIO interface

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Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> So, I and other people keep running into things where we really need to
> add an interface to pass some auxiliary... stuff along with a pread() or
> pwrite().

How would you enumerate this? 
How does the application know what the underlying stack supports/need?
How is versioning handled?

Frankly, in this form it looks more like a special purpose hack than a general
facility. 

-Andi

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