Linux and sendfile

Kevin D. Clark kclark at CetaceanNetworks.com
Tue Oct 29 17:53:17 EST 2002


[PLEASE DON'T TOPQUOTE]


Jeff Macdonald <jeff.macdonald at virtualbuilder.com> writes:

> Hmmm.... I'm thinking I'm braindead. read may not return the number of
> bytes requested,

True.

> write should always return the number of bytes written,
> and that should be the number requested or it is an error.

False.

Regards,

--kevin
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