glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/uio.h

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#ifndef _SYS_UIO_H
# error "Never include <bits/uio.h> directly; use <sys/uio.h> instead."
#endif


#include <sys/types.h>


/* We should normally use the Linux kernel header file to define this
   type and macros but this calls for trouble because of the header
   includes other kernel headers.  */

/* Size of object which can be written atomically.

   This macro has different values in different kernel versions.  The
   latest versions of ther kernel use 1024 and this is good choice.  Since
   the C library implementation of readv/writev is able to emulate the
   functionality even if the currently running kernel does not support
   this large value the readv/writev call will not fail because of this.  */
#define UIO_MAXIOV	1024


/* Structure for scatter/gather I/O.  */
struct iovec
  {
    void *iov_base;	/* Pointer to data.  */
    size_t iov_len;	/* Length of data.  */
  };