libdvdcss again

[Samuel Hocevar]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001, Gildas Bazin wrote:

> As libdvdcss api is working with blocks (sectors) instead of bytes, I
> was just thinking that it would maybe make more sense to change the
> specification for dvdcss_readv a little bit.
>
> Instead of having iovec structures where the iov_len field is the
> length in BYTES of the iovbase buffer, iov_len could be the length in
> BLOCKS (or sectors) of the buffer.

   Unfortunately the Unix kernels rely on iov_len to be in bytes, so
we couldn't use the accelerated readv call and we'd have to use a lame
readv replacement like in the Win32 version :-)

-- 
Sam.