src/lib/libc/sys/read.2, branch release/5.3.0_cvs

This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag

2004-11-04T19:12:42+00:00

'RELENG_5_3_0_RELEASE'.

This commit was manufactured to restore the state of the 5.3-RELEASE image.

Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.

2004-07-02T23:52:20+00:00

Markup, grammar, and spelling fixes.

2004-06-30T20:09:10+00:00

The maximum value of iovcnt is IOV_MAX, not 16.

2004-06-15T01:24:41+00:00

Describe EOVERFLOW case

2004-01-25T06:24:08+00:00

Fix/add errno return values to match the NFS client implementation and

2003-09-02T16:50:17+00:00

better represent failures of special files accessed over NFS.

Approved by:	schweikh (mentor)
Reviewed by:	bde (as a description)
MFC after:	6 weeks

Document that read(2) can also return EPERM

2003-08-30T07:59:05+00:00

See e.g. nfsclient/nfs_vnops.c

static int
nfs_read(struct vop_read_args *ap)
{
        struct vnode *vp = ap->a_vp;

        if (vp->v_type != VREG)
                return (EPERM);
        return (nfs_bioread(vp, ap->a_uio, ap->a_ioflag, ap->a_cred));
}

Approved by:	schweikh (mentor)
MFC after:	6 weeks

Fix struct iovec documentation to match reality.

2003-01-12T15:18:47+00:00

Submitted by:	Craig Rodrigues

mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.".

2002-12-19T09:40:28+00:00

mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language.

2002-12-18T09:22:32+00:00

Stop calling system calls "function calls".

Use "The .Fn system call" a-la "The .Nm utility".

When referring to a non-BSD implementation in
the HISTORY section, call syscall a function,
to be safe.