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[apartan at gouldsd.UUCP]

In article <37 at mtxinu.UUCP>, ed at mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) writes:
> As long as we're reading the documentatin *carefully*, let's remember that
> any return from
> 
> 	write(fd, buf, n)
> 
> that is != n is an error.

This is NOT so!  If the fd refers to a pipe, and you are writing more bytes
than the pipe will hold, and you get an interrupt, then the write() will return
something that is >0, but is != n.

I ran into this problem porting some code to a Perkin-Elmer XELOS system (a
port of Sys V).

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