Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 15:54:55 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: jgmyers@netscape.com (John Myers)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: aio_poll in 2.6
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jgmyers@netscape.com (John Myers) wrote:
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> Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> >I can do that, but would need the test app...
> >  
> >
> Unfortunately, the thread pool framework the test app uses is proprietary.
> 

That is a problem.

Generally, adding new code in codepaths which lots of apps use is low-risk
because problems will be found quickly.

But from a stabilising-the-kernel viewpoint, adding new code which does not
require elevated privileges, and which is not used by any current
applications and which doesn't even have a decent test suite is a big
worry.

There is a little testcase in
http://www.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio/aio-userspace-18a.tar.gz but it is singly
threaded.

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