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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:14:49 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: readv - incorrect behavior?
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:33:57PM -0400, Hirsch, Matthew wrote:
>I've encountered a problem with the readv system call under Cygwin of the
>form
>
>	int readv(int fd, const struct iovec *vector, int count);
>
>It appears that readv is reading past the end of the file described by fd
>and instead reading until each buffer in the iovec is filled.  This is not
>limited to disk files, as I originally came across this problem when reading
>from a pty's file descriptor.

Yep.  It's a bug.  I've checked in a fix.  It will be in the next snapshot.

Thanks for the simple test case.  That's always appreciated.

cgf

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