Re: API design problem - buffer scatter I/O

[sjw <simon.j.wright@mac.com>]

On Nov 26, 8:34 am, Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homep...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Of course, you could still argue that in the case of real I/O it might
> be done with just a sequence of separate I/O calls for each involved
> buffer, so again scatter operation is not necessary, but then the
> counterargument would be for example atomicity of the whole data
> transfer. And so on.

And is quite unlikely to work for UDP (you have to send/receive the
whole datagram in one go ..)