Re: [Qemu-devel] Heads up: glibc preadv emulation breaks qemu on older kernels

[malc]

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.

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