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From: faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: What's a good prototype for write(2)?
Message-ID: <6794@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 26 Oct 88 01:40:13 GMT
References: <902@vsi.COM>
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In article <902@vsi.COM>, friedl@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