The following reply was made to PR standards/164793; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Nicolas Bourdaud
To: Bruce Evans
Cc: freebsd-gnats-sub...@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/164793: 'write' system call violates POSIX standard
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:1
On 05/02/2012 19:54, Bruce Evans wrote:
> I think this is actually a bug in POSIX (XSI). Most programs aren't
> prepared to deal with short writes, and returning an error like
> truncate() is specified to is adequate.
I disagree, I think that most programs that check that the write
succeeded also
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Feb 05 11:50:08 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Nicolas Bourdaud
>Release:FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
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