Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!tank!nic.MR.NET!hal!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!killer!vector!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: What's a good prototype for write(2)? Summary: From the 'All the worlds a VAX' department. Keywords: All the world is *NOT* a VAX. Message-ID: <8296@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 28 Oct 88 00:23:09 GMT Article-I.D.: rpp386.8296 References: <902@vsi.COM> <6794@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Distribution: comp Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX Lines: 17 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: >> ... 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... I can't think of too many programs where that would be true. But wanting to write 32K is something well within reason. -- John F. Haugh II +----Make believe quote of the week---- VoiceNet: (214) 250-3311 Data: -6272 | Nancy Reagan on Richard Stallman: InterNet: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US | "Just say `Gno'" UucpNet : !killer!rpp386!jfh +--------------------------------------