POSIX: make readv() and writev() conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001

The standardized version of readv() and writev() take an int as the third
parameter. Arguably a size_t makes more sense, but the standardization bodies
decided otherwise.

The non-standard functions of readv_pos() and writev_pos() have been updated
for consistency. The corresponding _kern_readv() and _kern_writev() internal
functions continue to take the size_t parameter.

The ABI will not change, even though on 64 bit machines the size of the count
parameter will change from 8 to 4 bytes.

The actual use will be slightly different. Like with the size_t argument type,
it will not be possible to give a count lower than 0. If the value is less than
0, then the B_BAD_VALUE/EINVAL error will be set.

Change-Id: I949c8ed67dbc0b4e209768cbdee554c929fc242e
Reviewed-on: https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/3770
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Duval <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
Niels Sascha Reedijk
2021-03-16 12:03:02 +00:00
committed by Adrien Destugues
parent 4f7db7e037
commit fc03b45a71
5 changed files with 39 additions and 26 deletions
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@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ typedef struct iovec {
extern "C" {
#endif
ssize_t readv(int fd, const struct iovec *vector, size_t count);
ssize_t readv_pos(int fd, off_t pos, const struct iovec *vec, size_t count);
ssize_t writev(int fd, const struct iovec *vector, size_t count);
ssize_t writev_pos(int fd, off_t pos, const struct iovec *vec, size_t count);
ssize_t readv(int fd, const struct iovec *vector, int count);
ssize_t readv_pos(int fd, off_t pos, const struct iovec *vec, int count);
ssize_t writev(int fd, const struct iovec *vector, int count);
ssize_t writev_pos(int fd, off_t pos, const struct iovec *vec, int count);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
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@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ extern "C" {
#endif
fssh_ssize_t fssh_readv(int fd, const struct fssh_iovec *vector,
fssh_size_t count);
int count);
fssh_ssize_t fssh_readv_pos(int fd, fssh_off_t pos, const struct
fssh_iovec *vec, fssh_size_t count);
fssh_iovec *vec, int count);
fssh_ssize_t fssh_writev(int fd, const struct fssh_iovec *vector,
fssh_size_t count);
int count);
fssh_ssize_t fssh_writev_pos(int fd, fssh_off_t pos,
const struct fssh_iovec *vec, fssh_size_t count);
const struct fssh_iovec *vec, int count);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}