>
> So anyway, I think there are probably some good reasons to do the
> merging in __fwritex rather than in the __stdio_write backend. But it
> should be a lot simpler than what you initially proposed.
>
> Rich
>

Thanks for your feedback!  In interest of keeping the proposal as simple as
possible, I've gone with just one extra line of code (see below).  It
simply does copying for  i <= 8.

It works on my initial testing and I'm getting zero lengths in the 2nd
writev iovec (as expected), but I'll test it more in coming week.

size_t __fwritex(const unsigned char *restrict s, size_t l, FILE *restrict
f)

{

size_t i=0;


if (!f->wend && __towrite(f)) return 0;


if (l > f->wend - f->wpos) return f->write(f, s, l);


if (f->lbf >= 0) {

/* Match /^(.*\n|)/ */

for (i=l; i && s[i-1] != '\n'; i--);

if (i) {

*if (i <= 8) for (; i; i--, l--) *(f->wpos)++ = *s++;*

size_t n = f->write(f, s, i);

if (*!f->wpos ||* n < i) return n;

l -= i;

s += i;

}

}


memcpy(f->wpos, s, l);

f->wpos += l;

return l+i;

}