2008/784 Sendfilev Behavior Change

[Bart Smaalders]

Roland Mainz wrote:

> ... which effectively means: A shell with thread support or any other
> language environment (e.g. java) shouldn't use |sendfilev()| when files
> are involed, right ?

Isn't this just a relaxation of the atomicity level?  In other words,
the current definition appears to imply that the sendfilev write 
operation is atomic; this proposal explicitly (perhaps not explicitly
enough :-)) relaxes this constraint.

- Bart



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