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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2015-05-15 14:39:52 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2015-05-15 15:42:10 +0200
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write.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ if it is interrupted after at least one byte has been written,
the call succeeds, and returns the number of bytes written.
On Linux,
-.BR read ()
+.BR write ()
(and similar system calls) will transfer at most
0x7ffff000 (2,147,479,552) bytes,
returning the number of bytes actually transferred.