Jeff King wrote: > Many callers of read_in_full() expect to see exactly "len" > bytes, and die if that isn't the case. micronit: Can this be named read_in_full_or_die? Otherwise it's too easy to mistake for a function like xread, which has different semantics. I realize that xmalloc, xmemdupz, etc use a different convention. That's yet another reason to be explicit, IMHO. Thanks, Jonathan