On Tue, 1 Jul 2025, at 15:21, Daniel Boland wrote: > Hello friends of OpenBSD, > > I have been porting OpenBSD to MS Windows. If I use BSD vi to edit and save a > file, vi throws an error because the write() system call is failing (EAGAIN), > and leaves me with a truncated file.
On BSD, write(2) only returns EAGAIN for files opened in non-blocking mode. vi most likely opens files in blocking mode, so this error is unreachable. See: https://man.openbsd.org/write.2#EAGAIN
