> Single Unix adds two new system calls, pread and pwrite, that take
> an extra argument for the location to do the I/O. The "p" stands
> for "positioned" I guess.
What I am wondering is why did they leave out preadv and pwritev? Probably
these people do not like scatter/gather I/O, they left out putmsgv and
getmsgv as well.
-- Jens-Uwe Mager <pgp-mailto:62CFDB25>