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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: cvs commit: ports/devel/ORBit Makefile ports/devel/ORBit/files
         patch-src::IIOP::giop-msg-buffer.c
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<<On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 06:06:01 -0700 (PDT), Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> said:

>   Fix a rather weird incompatibility between ORBit and FreeBSD. It
>   appears that FreeBSD's writev(2) implementation is rather
>   unreliable when large number of vectors is submitted - it returns
>   EINVAL despite the fact that all arguments are pretty valid.

Not unreliable at all.  writev() is documented to give [EINVAL] when
the number of elements is greater than UIO_MAXIOV (spelled {IOV_MAX}
in POSIX and -current).

-GAWollman


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