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recv.2: Add 'iovec' defn to defn of 'msghdr' structure 

The 'msghdr' structure includes a field of type 'iovec',
so show the definition of that structure in this page.

Reported-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2009-03-10 11:02:58 +13:00
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@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.\" Modified 1998,1999 by Andi Kleen
.\" 2001-06-19 corrected SO_EE_OFFENDER, bug report by James Hawtin
.\"
.TH RECV 2 2009-02-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH RECV 2 2009-03-10 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
recv, recvfrom, recvmsg \- receive a message from a socket
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -288,11 +288,16 @@ The
call uses a
.I msghdr
structure to minimize the number of directly supplied arguments.
This structure has the following form, as defined in
This structure is defined as follows in
.IR <sys/socket.h> :
.in +4n
.nf
struct iovec { /* Scatter/gather array items */
void *iov_base; /* Starting address */
size_t iov_len; /* Number of bytes to transfer */
};
struct msghdr {
void *msg_name; /* optional address */
socklen_t msg_namelen; /* size of address */