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  1. /* Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  2. This file is part of the GNU C Library.
  3. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  4. modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
  5. License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
  6. version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  7. The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  8. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  9. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
  10. Lesser General Public License for more details.
  11. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  12. License along with the GNU C Library; if not, write to the Free
  13. Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
  14. 02111-1307 USA. */
  15. #ifndef _SYS_UIO_H
  16. # error "Never include <bits/uio.h> directly; use <sys/uio.h> instead."
  17. #endif
  18. #include <sys/types.h>
  19. /* We should normally use the Linux kernel header file to define this
  20. type and macros but this calls for trouble because of the header
  21. includes other kernel headers. */
  22. /* Size of object which can be written atomically.
  23. This macro has different values in different kernel versions. The
  24. latest versions of ther kernel use 1024 and this is good choice. Since
  25. the C library implementation of readv/writev is able to emulate the
  26. functionality even if the currently running kernel does not support
  27. this large value the readv/writev call will not fail because of this. */
  28. #define UIO_MAXIOV 1024
  29. /* Structure for scatter/gather I/O. */
  30. struct iovec
  31. {
  32. void *iov_base; /* Pointer to data. */
  33. size_t iov_len; /* Length of data. */
  34. };