porting aio.h to newlib

[Eshan Dhawan]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 4:32 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 5:11 PM Eshan Dhawan <eshandhawan51 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> hello everyone,
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>> RTEMS has the implementation of aio.h.
>> But for simplicity it needs to be shifted to newlib.
>> where would be the header file added and
>> where would be the source code files added??
>> Also what would be the other changes that would be required to setup the
>> methods ??
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> You wouldn't be porting the aio implementation to newlib, just moving the
> .h file.
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> The implementation is very RTEMS specific and there is no reason to move
> it since it can't be shared.
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> If our aio.h is portable enough to apply to other environments, then it
> can go in the main include directory of newlib.
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> If not, then it goes under an RTEMS specific directory.
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> Do you think it is portable or RTEMS specific in its contents?
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It seems to be portable and not RTEMS specific. So it can be added to the
main include folder.

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> And before it is moved, we may want to make a sweep to update the D7 page
> numbers. That is like a 1993 paper draft of POSIX. :)
>
Could you elaborate this part, please?

thanks :)
-Eshan

> --joel
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>> Thanks:)
>> -Eshan
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