Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:30:02 -0500 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> To: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: writev(2) and IOV_MAX confusion Message-ID: <20040216163002.GA56357@crodrigues.org> In-Reply-To: <4030E452.FFD6A59E@freebsd.org> References: <40309723.5020808@freebsd.org> <20040216103254.GA7779@VARK.homeunix.com> <4030E452.FFD6A59E@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:40:02PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Yes, the write(2) man page is missing any reference to <limits.h>.
> I'd say the man page should mention that.
This is a reasonable thing to do.
In the Single Unix Specification, v.3, the
man page for writev() has this text:
Traditionally, the maximum number of scatter/gather elements the
system can process in one call were described by the symbolic
value {UIO_MAXIOV}. In IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 this value is replaced
by the constant {IOV_MAX} which can be found in <limits.h>.
--
Craig Rodrigues
http://crodrigues.org
rodrigc@crodrigues.org
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