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/* Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
#ifndef _IOVEC_H
#define _IOVEC_H 1
#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. */
};
#endif /* iovec.h */
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