From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Subject: Re: [PATCH] process_vm_{read,write}v(3): initial man pages Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:50:47 -0400 Message-ID: <201203192050.48882.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <1331358148-17235-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1555212.QuzUi2U8Zb"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Cc: Christopher Yeoh , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1555212.QuzUi2U8Zb Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 19 March 2012 16:45:41 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > A quick question about one piece: > > +The count values might be individually capped according to > > \fIUIO_MAXIOV\fP. +If the Linux kernel is capped at smaller values, the > > C library will take care +of emulating the limit it exposes (if it is > > bigger) so the user only needs to +care about that (what the C library > > defines). >=20 > I don't see anything in glibc that does this. Have I missed something? i think you're correct. the code in glibc atm is merely a syscall(). i th= ink=20 the idea was to have the C library guarantee that and if moving forward the= =20 kernel changes, the C library would update by adding a wrapper. maybe just= =20 drop this sentence until that day comes ? =2Dmike --nextPart1555212.QuzUi2U8Zb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJPZ9RoAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBSS4P/R2OltAPlCBcnlXUJjzDv5xq ZQottsquDb2lhKJmzROXFC16b/bvGOZzvJxEmhNUF5uWUphp9bqnaNCPad+g6qh/ jp9gq7cZB+UUujly37/4MOTwx/4gYhCHFodTDhFthUZyqRB1LJp7E9W1u74T0Yrp fgn+Mq/6OiqZe7enImuh3fJz0DAHL3nv+6RFQeQNiXuCi0cuywMbTOfx4X3vuqBK B9rtGWFaPNV1jRl9VIuo0u/jThzF3QCwlE1KeM3fwKfV+iR9z/Af6o5zYNLweNkz 7oRb/UQFrO7KOLZtNHbk7Ij9IBTXYRGdv+ZMY0SwF/LU1dyFhpCTOBhLjiXeurWB tq4MyKbTX/Eq3oMfj4yyZ9WmwnRBWVV/iDeqX9MztZgaO7H8wSR57MACcympgnkQ sNDXjBdPdDczHBZB8Z23iJD3jJ2MRamvBAM8r+nCZ93TT+R3sSl/5MeGwh1t7NFM yuSVDK3ijZ8RHrhvNrMMHGR341pwG8ZSgtTJHFbGFgNnh9h7L81pD2ajUJjvr+7R 0ZEk7CAUkVLm55bREP0tgi8ksBVcnBpKBDZUMyzo7xKeYO/CE+Akn7Dtwx80/cYT NJHHo29QqVbiVKisPQhKxd+ykpS0JYt/QTHf+IDRlsdV2uHIhS5oWqPeBP1QFv7r RkZAMSBuXk8Ji5wUt1FG =GNFF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1555212.QuzUi2U8Zb-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html