1 /* Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
4 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
5 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
6 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
7 License, or (at your option) any later version.
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
12 Library General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
15 License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
16 not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
17 Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
24 /* Write data pointed by the buffers described by VECTOR, which
25 is a vector of COUNT `struct iovec's, to file descriptor FD.
26 The data is written in the order specified.
27 Operates just like `write' (see <unistd.h>) except that the data
28 are taken from VECTOR instead of a contiguous buffer. */
30 DEFUN(writev, (fd, vector, count),
31 int fd AND CONST struct iovec *vector AND size_t count)
35 size_t bytes, to_copy;
38 /* Find the total number of bytes to be written. */
40 for (i = 0; i < count; ++i)
41 bytes += vector[i].io_len;
43 /* Allocate a temporary buffer to hold the data. */
44 buffer = (char *) __alloca(bytes);
46 /* Copy the data into BUFFER. */
49 for (i = 0; i < count; ++i)
51 #define min(a, b) ((a) > (b) ? (b) : (a))
52 size_t copy = min(vector[i].io_len, to_copy);
54 (void) memcpy((PTR) bp, (PTR) vector[i].io_buf, copy);
62 return write(fd, buffer, bytes);