<<On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:38:42 +0200, Marc Olzheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Btw.: I'm not sure write(),writev() and pwrite() are allowed to do short > writes on regular files... ? I believe it is the intent of the Standard to prohibit this (a paragraph in the rationale says that short writes can only happen if O_NONBLOCK is set, but this is clearly wrong because the normative text says end-of-medium also results in a short write) but there does not appear to be any language which requires atomic behavior for descriptors other than pipes and FIFOs. As a quality-of-implementation matter, for writes to regular files not to be atomic would be considered surprising. -GAWollman _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
