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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2017-01-26 12:08:38 +1300 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2017-01-26 15:03:17 +1300 |
| commit | dfbb4842f927271d64b25f75c3e28e4a8fda90b1 (patch) | |
| tree | f9953db7b9be80608521701301e74ffd2783b292 /man2/write.2 | |
| parent | 6435869d7e9b19abce23da619ae99137f99210e1 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-dfbb4842f927271d64b25f75c3e28e4a8fda90b1.tar.gz | |
write.2: Alert the reader that there is a limit on 'count'
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86061
Reported-by: Kai NODA <nodakai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man2/write.2 b/man2/write.2 index 4c0cca4767..05dc28a7b2 100644 --- a/man2/write.2 +++ b/man2/write.2 @@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ that can be proved to occur after a .BR write () has returned will return the new data. Note that not all filesystems are POSIX conforming. + +According to POSIX.1, if +.I count +is greater than +.BR SSIZE_MAX , +the result is implementation-defined; +see NOTES for the upper limit on Linux. .SH RETURN VALUE On success, the number of bytes written is returned (zero indicates nothing was written). |