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Date:      Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:42:13 -0600 (CST)
From:      Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To:        "Richard Seaman, Jr." <lists@tar.com>
Cc:        "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: pread/pwrite
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.02.9812101633460.26208-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <199812102157.PAA27463@ns.tar.com>

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Can you send this patch as a followup to kern/8011?  Seems
someone else has an interest in this too and may be able
to help you test it.

-steve

On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote:

# On Thu, 10 Dec 98 15:56:01 -0600, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote:
# 
# >I don't know if there is any interest in X/Open pread, pwrite 
# >calls.  Essentially, they implement atomic seek/write and
# >atomic seek/read calls.  They are more useful in threaded
# >apps where you would need a file lock between a seek/write
# >or seek/read, but even in single threaded apps can allow
# >you to avoid a syscall.
# >
# >Attached is an implementation.  If there is interest, and
# >if the implementation meets with approval, I'll submit
# >a PR.  Or, perhaps someone would want to commit it directly.
# >
# >I welcome any comments.
# 
# Whoops.  Forgot the attachment.
# 
# 


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