Messages in this thread | | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: writev() "bug" | Date | Mon, 3 Jun 1996 15:12:24 +0100 (BST) |
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> I think that there is still a lot of SunOS-centric code out there that > will blindly assume it can write up to 16 iov's in one call. For that > reason, I don't think Linux should go smaller than that unless > absolutely necessary. Why is it any harder to shove 64 bytes onto the > stack (8 iov structs) than 128 bytes (16 iov structs)? I wouldn't > think you would run into problems until you get much larger and start > running into the VM page size.
16 wont , 128 might well be. I'll move to 16
Alan
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