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To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: readv: parallel or sequential? 
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In message <fjbb3v$n60$1@ger.gmane.org>, Ivan Voras writes:


>Does this mean that, in effect, readv() is just a loop of read() calls
>(minus syscall overhead)?

It's more correct to say that read() is just a readv() with a single
iovec.

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