What's a good prototype for write(2)?
Stephen J. Friedl
friedl at vsi.COM
Thu Oct 27 04:20:43 AEST 1988
I write:
<
< 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.
Wayne A. Christopher writes:
<
< 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...
There are 16-bit machines out there for which this is
an entirely reasonable question.
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