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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: hackers@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org
Subject: Re: OK, I'm stumped...
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>Why would anyone ever specify a second argument to uiomove() that
>was less than the largest iov->iov_len for the iov list in the
>uio structure that was passed in?

Because iov->iov_len might be as large as INT_MAX and it may be hard
to allocate a large enough kernel buffer.

	char buf[SMALLSIZE];
	...
	r = uiomove(buf, sizeof buf, uio);

Bruce