Subject: Re: letting userland issue FUA writes
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/16/2006 13:04:11
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 07:53:24PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> I don't know. It seems to me something similar to writev might work, where
> there is a flags field in iov. The problem I see is that there is no such
> interface/api in POSIX and other people haven't had the need for this before.

I think we should add an argument to pwritev -- or add another pwritev like
call.

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  Thor Lancelot Simon	                                     tls@rek.tjls.com

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