cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys read.2

Ruslan Ermilov ru at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 16 18:14:44 UTC 2004


On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 01:56:21PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:47:37 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org> said:
> 
> > But FreeBSD *is* the implementation, and in this implementation
> > IOV_MAX is the #define.  Does that make sense?
> 
> No, because we are not making any guarantees that IOV_MAX will be
> defined as a constant now or in the future, nor do we wish for
> programmers looking to make their programs portable to be misled about
> the constancy of IOV_MAX.
> 
OK, fair enough.  I can fix all -CURRENT manpages to mark them up
with {}'s.  Can you point me to the list of these configuration
variables?  (I think I will introduce a .Cv macro for it.)


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/attachments/20040616/43aeb1a5/attachment.sig>


More information about the freebsd-doc mailing list