This piece of code is from the JACK Audio Connection Kit
(trimmed down a bit for better readability).

The vector functions now reuse the common iovec struct used by
writev/readv instead of reinventing an identical but
differently-named struct.

From the comments:
> ISO/POSIX C version of Paul Davis's lock free ringbuffer C++ code.
> This is safe for the case of one read thread and one write thread.

License is LGPL 2.1 or later

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