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Date:      Sat, 4 Jul 1998 14:12:43 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        joelh@gnu.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Portability of scatter / gather
Message-ID:  <19980704141243.B358@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807040356.WAA14496@detlev.UUCP>; from Joel Ray Holveck on Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 10:56:51PM -0500
References:  <199807040356.WAA14496@detlev.UUCP>

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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
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