What's a good prototype for write(2)?

Wayne A. Christopher faustus at ic.Berkeley.EDU
Wed Oct 26 11:40:13 AEST 1988


In article <902 at vsi.COM>, friedl at vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
> 	extern int write(int, const void *, unsigned);
>
> ... how does this deal with a successful
> write very near the maximum unsigned value?  The return
> would then appear to be negative.

If you have a program that has a good reason for wanting to write 2 billion
bytes at a time, please tell me what it is...

	Wayne



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