On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Dave Chinner [off-list ref] wrote:

That's a different interface.

So is openat. So is readahead.

My point is that this idiotic "let's expose special cases" must end.
It's broken. It inevitably only exposes a subset of what different
people would want.

Making "aio_read()" and friends a special interface had historical
reasons for it. But expanding willy-nilly on that model does not.

               Linus

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