levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) (06/28/87)
In article <995@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William Sommerfeld) writes: < \begin{flame} < sys$qiow() appears to be the equivalent to either write(), or < writev(), or probably both at the same time, on UNIX systems. This < routine takes 12 arguments??!? Eight of which are zero in this < case??!?? No wonder DEC can't get the C runtime library to work < correctly. :-), I suppose.... sys$qiow() (and its synchronous brother, sys$qio -- the "w" stands for "wait") is truly a kitchen sink system call through which all VMS I/O related activity (except open and close, I think) ultimately goes. It combines the function- ality of UNIX read(), write(), ioctl(), select(), and more. -- |------------dan levy------------| Path: ..!{akgua,homxb,ihnp4,ltuxa,mvuxa, | an engihacker @ | vax135}!ttrdc!ttrda!levy | at&t data systems division | Disclaimer: try datclaimer. |--------skokie, illinois--------|