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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: aio
Date: 19 Dec 2001 16:55:19 -0800
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Followup to:  <3C213270.966DABFE@zip.com.au>
By author:    Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> The aio_* functions are part of POSIX and SUS, so merely reserving
> system call numbers for them does not seems a completely dumb
> thing to do, IMO.
> 

Yes, it is, unless you already have a design for how to map the aio_*
library functions onto system calls.

	-hpa


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