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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: misc/9033: <sys/uio.h> refer to <sys/types.h>  but not include one
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The following reply was made to PR misc/9033; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: bde@zeta.org.au, rssh@grad.kiev.ua
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/9033: <sys/uio.h> refer to <sys/types.h>  but not include one
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 17:59:00 +1100

 >> This is a (not very good, but...) design feature.  See `man 2 readv',
 >> `man 2 writev' and `man 9 uio'.
 >
 > i. e. format of struct_iov in uio.uio_uov and readv is different ?
 
 No.  The prerequisite <sys/types.h> is specified.
 >
 > format of uio_uov can be in general absolute any ?
 
 No.
 
 >  why this is not void * or union ?
 
 It is a 20 year old interface.
 
 Bruce

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