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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: What's a good prototype for write(2)?
Message-ID: <8757@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 26 Oct 88 09:44:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: smoke.8757
References: <902@vsi.COM> <6794@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <6794@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) writes:
-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? 
-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...

Lots of people have had trouble with this for modest request sizes,
say from 32K to 64K-1.