On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 04:49:23PM +0300, malc wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:06:08PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > One interesting thing is that qemu has its own preadv emulation (which > > > does the emulation correctly), but this is never used because qemu > > > never gets ENOSYS back from preadv. > > > > At this point the amount of bugs in the glibc preadv/pwritev code really > > make me want to go to use the raw system calls on Linux only. Any > > opinions from the maintainers if that is acceptable? > > There are more than one way to parse the first sentence, if it should be > read as: > On linux and on linux only avoid using pread/write[v] and talk to the > kernel directly. > > Then i agree.
Yes. The BSDs tend to not play stupid emulation games in the libc, so changes of these kinds of messups to happen are far less.
