Re: [PATCH 01/23] pipe.7: also mention writev(2) in atomicity section

Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-08-08T20:06:24Z

On 8/8/21 3:20 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On 8/8/21 10:41 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> From: наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
>>
>> writev(2) notes that buffers don't interleave with other process'
>> (a reasonable question to ask), but points to pipe(7) for an exception.
>> pipe(7) did /not/ mention "writev", "iov", "scat", or "gath", which are,
>> in order, reasonable search terms: this was confusing at best and
>> alarming at worst
>>
>> By mentioning writev(2) in the heading, we clearly note that this sort
>> of interleaving behaviour matches write(2)'s and isn't a concern
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
>> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
>
> Oops, drop this one that I already sent in the previous set.

Dropped.

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