[Bug 1656] GSoC AIO patch

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https://www.rtems.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1656

--- Comment #5 from Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius at rtems.org> 2010-08-09 01:00:56 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Ralf,
> 
> Joel had some valid comments but I addressed some of them in the google code
> repo, so I suggest everyone should look at the repo. I plan to wrap things up
> today.
> 
> I renamed all functions and structures as rtems_aio_*, if that's ok with you.
OK with me.

> There's no test code yet, but there's a sample in
> testsuites/samples/testrtems/aio
Please try to convert this into a testsuites/* test (pstests/aio<something).

> There is also an issue of initializing chains, that's why rtems_aio_init should
> be used before using aio. Can this be done different? 
There are several ways to do so.

One way is to hookup initialization somewhere into libc's initialization/posix
initialization. 

> I was not really sure about the license,
OK.

> that's why the files have no licenses.
"no licenses" means "proprietary and illegal to ship code".

> The whole implementation is based on the glibc implementation which is under
> gpl2.
Woa, ... then we will not be able to add your works to RTEMS, because the GPL2
is incompatible to RTEMS.

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