STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment:

os.write(data) can write less than len(data) bytes. It's by contract, as 
socket.send(data) can send less than len(data).

It is used to truncated the length argument to INT_MAX, to be able to cast it 
to an int on Windows. Extract of _Py_write():

#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
    if (count > 32767 && isatty(fd)) {
        /* Issue #11395: the Windows console returns an error (12: not
           enough space error) on writing into stdout if stdout mode is
           binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less,
           depending on heap usage). */
        count = 32767;
    }
#endif
    if (count > _PY_WRITE_MAX) {
        count = _PY_WRITE_MAX;
    }

with:

#if defined(MS_WINDOWS) || defined(__APPLE__)
    /* On Windows, the count parameter of read() is an int (bpo-9015, bpo-9611).
       On macOS 10.13, read() and write() with more than INT_MAX bytes
       fail with EINVAL (bpo-24658). */
#   define _PY_READ_MAX  INT_MAX
#   define _PY_WRITE_MAX INT_MAX
#else
    /* write() should truncate the input to PY_SSIZE_T_MAX bytes,
       but it's safer to do it ourself to have a portable behaviour */
#   define _PY_READ_MAX  PY_SSIZE_T_MAX
#   define _PY_WRITE_MAX PY_SSIZE_T_MAX
#endif



Can we do something similar for sendfile()?

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nosy: +vstinner

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