2008/784 Sendfilev Behavior Change

[James Carlson]

Bart Smaalders writes:
> It would be useful to be more explicit about exactly what is different:

I apologize for the new text.  That was mine.  (The original case
provided _no_ description in the man page and just deleted the
offending 'writev' paragraph, though the text in the case itself said
that text would be provided.)

>       This function is analogous to the writev(2) system call, but can
>       read from both buffers and file descriptors.  Unlike writev(),
>       in the case of multiple writers to a file the effect of
>       sendfilev is not necessarily atomic; the writes may be
>       interleaved. Application-specific synchronization methods
>       must be employed if this causes problems.

That's better.

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