Artificial UIO_MAXIOV

Elliot Lee (sopwith@redhat.com)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 22:30:03 -0400 (EDT)


This is the limit for the number of iovecs that can be passed to
readv()/writev()

2.0.x has it as 16

2.1.109 has it as 1024

Is there any reason to enforce a maximum at all, beside the range of
size_t?

The header files make a note that a POSIX 1003.g implementation must
support at least 16 iovecs as a maximum, but say nothing about an upper
bound.

Writing software that is definitely bumping into the limit of 16, and
seeing no point in having any limit at all,
-- Elliot
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