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Date:      Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:14:34 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys read.2
Message-ID:  <20040616181434.GB25846@ip.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <200406161756.i5GHuLg6011995@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 01:56:21PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:47:37 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> sai=
d:
>=20
> > But FreeBSD *is* the implementation, and in this implementation
> > IOV_MAX is the #define.  Does that make sense?
>=20
> 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.
>=20
OK, fair enough.  I can fix all -CURRENT manpages to mark them up
with {}'s.  Can you point me to the list of these configuration
variables?  (I think I will introduce a .Cv macro for it.)


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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