Re: writev is "unfair".

[Ulrich Drepper]

Sebastian Wilhelmi <address@hidden> writes:

> I just wanted to know, if such a change would at least have the chance to be
> included, or if it isn't possible because of e.g. diagnosis semantics, that
> require to call write inside writev exactly once.

None of this.  The caller is responsible.  The writev() on all
architectures guarantees only a given amount of records to written at
one time.  Many OSes use 16, Linux I think has 1024.  Use must not
exceed this limit.  If you do we try to recover but it sometimes
fails.

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