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From: zap@front.se (Svante Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Should writev(2) be avoided?
Keywords: writev
Message-ID: <462@front.se>
Date: 21 Apr 89 13:42:43 GMT
Organization: Front Capital Systems, Stockholm, Sweden
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Is there a good reason to avoid the system call writev(2)?
The reason I ask is, I've never seen it in any code, but I
think it would be useful for something I'm writing now.

If writev is BSD only (is it?), that's not a big problem, it
can be emulated well enough for my needs should the code need
to be moved to a non-BSD derived environment. Will writev be
in SysVr4? If it wouln't, will Sun still keep it?

Thanks,
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