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78239589 1/* Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 2006, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3e5f5557 2 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
857fa1b8 3
3e5f5557 4 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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5 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
6 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
7 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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9 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
41bdb6e2 12 Lesser General Public License for more details.
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14 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
15 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, write to the Free
16 Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
17 02111-1307 USA. */
3e5f5557 18
b8c31ac1 19#if !defined _SYS_UIO_H && !defined _FCNTL_H
f4017d20 20# error "Never include <bits/uio.h> directly; use <sys/uio.h> instead."
5107cf1d 21#endif
3e5f5557 22
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23#ifndef _BITS_UIO_H
24#define _BITS_UIO_H 1
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26#include <sys/types.h>
27
28
29/* We should normally use the Linux kernel header file to define this
30 type and macros but this calls for trouble because of the header
31 includes other kernel headers. */
32
33/* Size of object which can be written atomically.
34
35 This macro has different values in different kernel versions. The
f4d22f0f 36 latest versions of the kernel use 1024 and this is good choice. Since
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37 the C library implementation of readv/writev is able to emulate the
38 functionality even if the currently running kernel does not support
39 this large value the readv/writev call will not fail because of this. */
40#define UIO_MAXIOV 1024
41
42
43/* Structure for scatter/gather I/O. */
44struct iovec
45 {
46 void *iov_base; /* Pointer to data. */
47 size_t iov_len; /* Length of data. */
48 };
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50#endif
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52#if defined _SYS_UIO_H && !defined _BITS_UIO_H_FOR_SYS_UIO_H
53#define _BITS_UIO_H_FOR_SYS_UIO_H 1
54
55__BEGIN_DECLS
56
57/* Read from another process' address space. */
58extern ssize_t process_vm_readv (pid_t __pid, __const struct iovec *__lvec,
59 size_t __liovcnt,
60 __const struct iovec *__rvec,
61 size_t __riovcnt, unsigned long int __flags)
62 __THROW;
63
64/* Write to another process' address space. */
65extern ssize_t process_vm_writev (pid_t __pid, __const struct iovec *__lvec,
66 size_t __liovcnt,
67 __const struct iovec *__rvec,
68 size_t __riovcnt, unsigned long int __flags)
69 __THROW;
70
71__END_DECLS
72
73#endif
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