Re: do_loop_readv_writev() not as described for drivers implementing only write()?

[Ulrich Drepper]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 04:11, Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would say that the libc enforces atomicity,

Not at all.  Any such implementation would unconditionally have to use
file locking and that's only a convention, not a requirement.  The
libc only tries to work around a missing writev syscall.
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