Bart Smaalders writes: > It would be useful to be more explicit about exactly what is different:
I apologize for the new text. That was mine. (The original case provided _no_ description in the man page and just deleted the offending 'writev' paragraph, though the text in the case itself said that text would be provided.) > This function is analogous to the writev(2) system call, but can > read from both buffers and file descriptors. Unlike writev(), > in the case of multiple writers to a file the effect of > sendfilev is not necessarily atomic; the writes may be > interleaved. Application-specific synchronization methods > must be employed if this causes problems. That's better. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
