PATCH preadv/pwritev

[joerg at britannica.bec.de]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:59:07PM -0700, Chuck Tuffli wrote:
> I had a need for the iovec versions of pread and pwrite and have a patch 
> for people to try. The changes are loosely based on the work done in 
> FreeBSD current and have been tested against an enhanced version of 
> Iozone. This testing has been on 1.4.x, but there doesn't appear to be a 
> big difference between HEAD and the 1.4 slip tag, so I would expect the 
> patch to work for HEAD as well.

Looks good. Can you take a look at the int mess of the various uio_resid
and similiar fields? It should be size_t all over the place, which will
be important on AMD64.

Joerg