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From: Randi Botse <nightdecoder@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: Problem with scatter/gather IO
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:33:40 +0700
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Ahh,, you are right Leon, each iov member need to be initialized
first, my bad. Everything is OK now. I also use sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX)
to determine maximum iovs count.

Thanks,


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Leon Romanovsky <leon@leon.nu> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 14:54, Randi Botse <nightdecoder@gmail.com> w=
rote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I will read/write file with readv() and writev(), I have problem to
>> use that since the struct iovec will be a variable-length array, if =
i
>> have code.
>>
>> struct foo {
>> =A0 =A0unsigned char data[100];
>> =A0 =A0unsigned char another_data[28];
>> };
>> unsigned len;
>> ....
>>
>> /* calculate len */
>> /* use len as array's member size */
>> struct iovec iov[len];
>> printf("len is: %i\n", len);
>> readv(fd, iov, len);
>>
>> I got: BAD ADDRESS, and if I remove the printf() then I will get
>> INVALID ARGUMENT. What the possible problem with that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>
> Did you try "man readv" ?
> You didn't initialized iovec struct.
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/readv.html
>
> --
> Leon Romanovsky | Independent Linux Consultant
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0www.leon.nu=A0| leon@leon.nu
>
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