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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