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). > > 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 think the idea was to have the C library guarantee that and if moving forward the kernel changes, the C library would update by adding a wrapper. maybe just drop this sentence until that day comes ? -mike
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