Re: [PATCH 07/13] aio: enabled thread based async fsync
flat view
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2016-01-12 02:38:15
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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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