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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 01/15] tools/libxc: Implement
 writev_exact() in the same style as write_exact()
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 11:44:26 +0100
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On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 18:15 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> This implementation of writev_exact() will cope with an iovcnt greater than
> IOV_MAX because glibc will actually let this work anyway, and it is very
> useful not to have to work about this in the caller of writev_exact().  The
> caller is still required to ensure that the sum of iov_len's doesn't overflow
> a ssize_t.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> CC: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
> CC: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>