Hello!
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 02:52:41AM -0800, Simon Marlow wrote:
> [...]
> The idea is that the functions never return until the whole buffer is
> written. If the reading end (of a socket or pipe) is closed prematurely,
> we'll get an IO error.
But even in the IO error, it'd be interesting to know if nothing
was written at all or at least a part was written before the error
occurred.
E.g. partial writes because of reaching the disk quota (where the
part returned as write() result was really written and really reached
its destination).
> [...]
Regards, Hannah.
