On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 22:52:25 -0800
"Scott Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Personally I've found that knowing about a partial write is useless.
> If you only wrote part of it, there was probably an error that you
> want to report anyways.  That's the whole point of a wrapper like
> pwrite which continues on meaningless errors (EINTR) but stops on
> larger errors.

Agreed.
A partial write can be treated like a failed write *given the current import
layer architecture* (the same for the reads).

Bests,

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