[PATCH 01/23] pipe.7: also mention writev(2) in atomicity section
From: Alejandro Colomar <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-08 08:41:46
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
From: Alejandro Colomar <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-08 08:41:46
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
From: наб <redacted> writev(2) notes that buffers don't interleave with other process' (a reasonable question to ask), but points to pipe(7) for an exception. pipe(7) did /not/ mention "writev", "iov", "scat", or "gath", which are, in order, reasonable search terms: this was confusing at best and alarming at worst By mentioning writev(2) in the heading, we clearly note that this sort of interleaving behaviour matches write(2)'s and isn't a concern Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <redacted> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <redacted> --- man7/pipe.7 | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man7/pipe.7 b/man7/pipe.7
index c3210320c..29f6cf6cb 100644
--- a/man7/pipe.7
+++ b/man7/pipe.7@@ -246,6 +246,8 @@ limits; see BUGS. .SS PIPE_BUF POSIX.1 says that .BR write (2)s +and +.BR writev (2)s of less than .B PIPE_BUF bytes must be atomic: the output data is written to the pipe as a
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