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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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On 25 Apr 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> Is there anything in any of the standards that prevents us from making
> iov_base a void * instead of a char *?

Probably not.  POSIX.1-200x-draft7 only prevents making it a char *
instead of a void * :-).  We also have a wrong type for iov_len
(should be size_t).

Bruce


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