writev(2) and IOV_MAX confusion

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:40:02PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Yes, the write(2) man page is missing any reference to <limits.h>.
> I'd say the man page should mention that.

This is a reasonable thing to do.

In the Single Unix Specification, v.3, the
man page for writev() has this text:

   Traditionally, the maximum number of scatter/gather elements the
   system can process in one call were described by the symbolic
   value {UIO_MAXIOV}. In IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 this value is replaced
   by the constant {IOV_MAX} which can be found in <limits.h>.


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