On Wednesday 09 January 2008 06:23:22 Zach Brown wrote: > Sarah Sharp wrote: > > I think the Debian package maintainer should also be involved in this. > > > > I would love to see preadv and pwritev go into libaio, as they will be > > useful for userspace USB driver developers to interface with usbfs2 > > (http://wiki.cs.pdx.edu/usb/usbfs2.html). I do have a few more issues > > with the libaio-dev package. > > *I* would love for people to stop using libaio.
Then you will have to provide an alternative. Since AIO now hooks up with eventfd, making it poll()able and not just a novelty, I'd say now is the time for such a thing. Otherwise it'll be libaio everywhere. > It's not a library, in > that it doesn't isolate applications from the system ABI. It's no more > than a bunch of inline functions. It was a mistake, in my opinion, but > here we are. For some reason it implements the arch-specific syscalls manually, too. Cheers, Rusty. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
