Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> added the comment:
The write() man page says:
The number of bytes written may be less than count if, for example,
there is insufficient space on
the underlying physical medium, or the RLIMIT_FSIZE resource limit is
encountered (see setrlimit(2)),
or the call was interrupted by a signal handler after having written
less than count bytes. (See
also pipe(7).)
So, we could return the number of bytes successfully written, and let the next
call fail.
Another possibility is to only write 2GB-1 and let the caller retry.
Most people use buffered I/O, and the buffered layer automatically retries.
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