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Re: multidirectbufferIO and multibufferIO
Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Casey" == Casey Marshall <csm@gnu.org> writes:
>
> Casey> I don't see that much point in using readv/writev for file I/O, anyway,
> Casey> especially because there do seem to be bugs in our implementation of it.
>
> Can you ask the guy who wrote this code in Classpath about his
> motivations? I don't remember them, and it would be good to know what
> drove the implementation before we look at removing it.
>
It's probably moot, now. I've figured out why writeGathering wasn't
working, and am working on a similar fix for readScattering. Since there
don't seem to be any problems with using readv/writev (correctly) for
files, we can leave this in.