signal & slow devices

[Dave Eisen]

In article <26437 at adm.brl.mil> wolf at grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) writes:
>
>In the cas of a write, can I be sure that in case I get a -1 return code
>*none* of the buffer has been sent to the device.?
>

Yes. It is not an error if anything at all was actually written to the
device. If you tried to write 2000 bytes and only 3 were written, write will 
return 3.



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