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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: <8800@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 29 Oct 88 21:48:47 GMT
References: <902@vsi.COM> <1988Oct28.170735.23991@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1988Oct28.170735.23991@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>The latter is correct.  See any Unix manual.

Sorry, but not all UNIX manuals agree about this.  IEEE 1003.1 went with
the SVID on this; the third parameter to read() and write() is an unsigned
int.  Even on the PDP-11 UNIX I used to use, one could succeed in reading/
writing records up to 64K-2 bytes although the manual said that the
argument was a plain int.