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Date:      Thu, 4 Jan 1996 16:46:09 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org
Subject:   Re: OK, I'm stumped...
Message-ID:  <199601040546.QAA15201@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Why would anyone ever specify a second argument to uiomove() that
>was less than the largest iov->iov_len for the iov list in the
>uio structure that was passed in?

Because iov->iov_len might be as large as INT_MAX and it may be hard
to allocate a large enough kernel buffer.

	char buf[SMALLSIZE];
	...
	r = uiomove(buf, sizeof buf, uio);

Bruce



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