glibc-rtkaio.patch

[Andreas Jaeger]

On 03/14/2014 10:59 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 03/14/2014 04:36 PM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> Carlos,
>>
>> I just updated my fedora glibc package repo and noticed that it updated
>> this oldish patch. Isn't this something that we should include in glibc
>> proper finally? Or is it too ugly ;) ?
> 
> I feel a little old an senile, like we've talked about this before but
> I don't remember the outcome. This could also be the result of the

I don't remember any discussions on the mailing list but also did not
search for one.

> 7.5 month old that sends signals interrupting my sleep with EINTR.

Yeah, kids and sleep ;( Wait a few years, the interrupt rate will go down ;)

> I do not think it is too ugly, but as Roland points out, we need to
> review what is the actual kernel status of rtkaio, what difference
> does it have etc. etc.
> 
> I think we should add it as an add-on to be maintained upstream
> that you can enable if you want. However, before doing so I need
> to look at it deeply and figure out why we don't use use aio with
> versioned symbols and remove it.

Sounds like a good idea, thanks,

Andreas
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