cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys read.2

Garrett Wollman wollman at khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Wed Jun 16 17:56:52 UTC 2004


<<On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:47:37 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org> said:

> But FreeBSD *is* the implementation, and in this implementation
> IOV_MAX is the #define.  Does that make sense?

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.

-GAWollman



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