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Date:      Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:56:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys read.2
Message-ID:  <200406161756.i5GHuLg6011995@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040616174737.GA25398@ip.net.ua>
References:  <200406150124.i5F1Ofp9084012@repoman.freebsd.org> <200406151522.i5FFMeIc001885@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20040616062409.GC20866@ip.net.ua> <200406161543.i5GFhYq7009877@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20040616174737.GA25398@ip.net.ua>

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<<On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:47:37 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> said:

> But FreeBSD *is* the implementation, and in this implementation
> IOV_MAX is the #define.  Does that make sense?

No, because we are not making any guarantees that IOV_MAX will be
defined as a constant now or in the future, nor do we wish for
programmers looking to make their programs portable to be misled about
the constancy of IOV_MAX.

-GAWollman



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