Re: pread/pwrite and ix86

Richard Henderson (rth@dot.cygnus.com)
Mon, 1 Dec 1997 03:42:44 -0800

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On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 11:49:50PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> AFAIK at the moment only the alpha platform supports the pread/pwrite
> syscalls from user level programs. What's necessary for the other
> platforms? Are the appended patches (against 2.1.67) sufficient for
> i386 or do I need to add more to use pread/pwrite?

I think that's all that is required.

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