Thread (60 messages) 60 messages, 5 authors, 2021-10-17

Re: [PATCH 01/23] pipe.7: also mention writev(2) in atomicity section

From: Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-08 13:20:36

Hi Michael,

On 8/8/21 10:41 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
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>
Oops, drop this one that I already sent in the previous set.

Cheers,

Alex
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 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
-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
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