On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 4:35 PM Martin Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Could you please elaborate on what was lacking in the INT_MAX part?
> As seen in write's man page:
> >
> > On Linux, write() (and similar system calls) will transfer at most 
> > 0x7ffff000 (2,147,479,552) bytes, returning the number of bytes actually 
> > transferred.  (This  is  true  on
> >        both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.)
>
> Wouldn't it create an issue with 64 bit systems when trying to
> read/write large files?

This seemed like a change not prompted by an actually observed
buggy behavior.
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