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"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
>    Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 16:04:05 -0800
>    From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
> 
>    That's (very) nice, but it does assume there is currently a reader
>    listening.
> 
> No, it has no such assumption.
> 

Oh.  What do you do if there isn't... link up the contents of the write()
in a kiovec and hold the writer?

	-hpa

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