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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 2000 00:23:33 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, bde@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: readv manpage != UIO_MAXIOV
Message-ID:  <20001017002333.A24520@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20001016161329.W272@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:13:29PM -0700
References:  <20001016150017.T272@fw.wintelcom.net> <20001017000926.A52976@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <20001016161329.W272@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:13:29PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> So I guess we need a #define for IOV_MAX set to 1024?  This would
> be ideal since it will give a reasonable #define for applications
> to use and we don't break our current interface.
> 
> All that would be needed is the additional #define and a mention of
> it in the manpage.

Sounds reasonable - I guess that the define would go in sys/syslimits.h,
but I'm not sure how to link it to the kernel's value (should it
be replaced with the Posix name?) I'm sure Bruce can recommend a
reasonable way to do it.

	David.


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