On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 at 10:59, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Can I write a gigabyte of data to disk? Terabyte? Is petabyte too much? > What if I don't have enough physical disk. Do we "fix" write() not to > take size_t length? Dmitry, that's *EXACTLY* what we did decades ago. Your argument is bogus garbage. We do various arbitrary limits exactly to head off problems early. Linus