Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Matthias Lederhofer wrote:
checking for partial writes
Just out of interest: is this to be safe on any OS or should this
be checked always?
Any POSIX-conformant OS/filesystem should always do a full write for a
regular file, unless a serious error happens.
Actually, at least Linux won't, if the object is larger than 2 GB on a 64-bit system :)
-hpa
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