From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 3 21:43:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA09768 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 21:43:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA09754 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 21:43:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA14449; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 14:12:43 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980704141243.B358@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 14:12:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: joelh@gnu.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portability of scatter / gather References: <199807040356.WAA14496@detlev.UUCP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199807040356.WAA14496@detlev.UUCP>; from Joel Ray Holveck on Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 10:56:51PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 3 July 1998 at 22:56:51 -0500, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > On all BSD systems, is it the case that an item written with writev > can be read with read without translation, or does readv have to be > used? readv and writev are just ways of transferring the data. After it is onn the medium, you can't tell how it got there. So yes, you can read it without translation. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message