readv.2: Minor tweaks to Christoph's patch

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2017-11-14 08:16:05 +01:00
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commit 954136a176
1 changed files with 5 additions and 8 deletions

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@ -234,8 +234,10 @@ and its effect applies only to the data range written by the system call.
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.TP
.BR RWF_NOWAIT " (since Linux 4.14)"
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Do not wait for data which is not immediately available.
If this flag is specified the
If this flag is specified, the
.BR preadv2 ()
system call will return instantly if it would have to read data from
the backing storage or wait for a lock.
@ -244,13 +246,8 @@ If no bytes were read, it will return -1 and set
.IR errno
to
.BR EAGAIN .
This flag is meaningful only for
.BR preadv2 ()
at the moment.
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Currently, this flag is meaningful only for
.BR preadv2 ().
.SH RETURN VALUE
On success,
.BR readv (),