[Pvfs2-developers] readv/writev gone in 2.6.19-rc4

[Murali Vilayannur]

Hi RobL,
I see. so it is the same behavior as before. Just more explicit probably now..
thanks,
Murali

On 11/9/06, Robert Latham <robl at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:30:27AM -0800, Murali Vilayannur wrote:
> > Oh really. So how do we know if there were any leaked objects
> > remaining then?  We still have those cases btw. Since I added the
> > cleanup code to free all the heap objects, we don't panic nowadays
> > but it is a bug nonetheless.  There is something wrong with either
> > the vfs or our contract with vfs since it does not seem to release
> > references on some objects.. weird.
>
> Hm. Good question.  The comments about the patch suggest that you find
> out because the kernel will BUG on any leaked objects (?)
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/25/350
> http://www.gatago.com/linux/kernel/27892373.html
>
> ==rob
>
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