In message <20240207073905.ga2...@genode-labs.com>
Christian Helmuth <christian.helm...@genode-labs.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I do not know which "issue" you are referring to but I'm quite aware
> that we had repeating discussions about "partial reads". I see words
> above as your "opinion" about the matter and in no way "standard".
> POSIX and also the ISO C standard are quite explicit about the
> problematic nature of read() returning a short count in some cases.
> Both standards leave it to the programmer to cope with these
> situations and additionally provide a tool for the lazy - fread() [1].
> So, if you don't want to treat short/partial reads in your code, just
> use fread(), but never spread misleading opinions as universal truth.
Thanks for the clarification. Didn't know that it was as it should.
I use fread from now on.
Michael
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