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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-11-16 07:12:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-11-16 07:14:30 +0100 |
| commit | e7d8245112e992bb2e77a5345d1822783dca60fa (patch) | |
| tree | aad7e9e25197ff0f23028d4cf6b6796053a5a8d9 | |
| parent | 99149d6ee050e72509d73e240ef110320e50f2a0 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-e7d8245112e992bb2e77a5345d1822783dca60fa.tar.gz | |
readv.2: Wording fix: readv() and writev() are system calls, not functions
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/readv.2 | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man2/readv.2 b/man2/readv.2 index f38e0a6c09..0311101b5b 100644 --- a/man2/readv.2 +++ b/man2/readv.2 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ _BSD_SOURCE .SH DESCRIPTION The .BR readv () -function reads +system call reads .I iovcnt buffers from the file associated with the file descriptor .I fd @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ into the buffers described by .PP The .BR writev () -function writes +system call writes .I iovcnt buffers of data described by .I iov @@ -94,13 +94,13 @@ struct iovec { .PP The .BR readv () -function works just like +system call works just like .BR read (2) except that multiple buffers are filled. .PP The .BR writev () -function works just like +system call works just like .BR write (2) except that multiple buffers are written out. .PP @@ -211,9 +211,9 @@ first appeared in Linux 2.6.30; library support was added in glibc 2.10. .SH "CONFORMING TO" .BR readv (), .BR writev (): -4.4BSD (these functions first appeared in 4.2BSD), POSIX.1-2001. +4.4BSD (these system calls first appeared in 4.2BSD), POSIX.1-2001. Linux libc5 used \fIsize_t\fP as the type of the \fIiovcnt\fP argument, -and \fIint\fP as return type for these functions. +and \fIint\fP as the return type. .\" The readv/writev system calls were buggy before Linux 1.3.40. .\" (Says release.libc.) @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ The wrapper function for performs the analogous task using a temporary buffer and a call to .BR write (2). .SH BUGS -It is not advisable to mix calls to functions like +It is not advisable to mix calls to .BR readv () or .BR writev (), |