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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: What's a good prototype for write(2)?
Summary: All the world is not a VAX
Message-ID: <908@vsi.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 88 18:20:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: vsi.908
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Distribution: comp
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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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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