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From: dkeisen@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: signal & slow devices
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Date: 3 Apr 91 16:21:05 GMT
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In article <26437@adm.brl.mil> wolf@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) writes:
>
>In the cas of a write, can I be sure that in case I get a -1 return code
>*none* of the buffer has been sent to the device.?
>

Yes. It is not an error if anything at all was actually written to the
device. If you tried to write 2000 bytes and only 3 were written, write will 
return 3.



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