On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > 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 :) Yeah, true. In the end, you should always have the loop. That way, you never have to worry about what kind of file descriptor it is, what kind of filesystem you're running on, and what the limits of ssize_t might be. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html