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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-04-11 18:04:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-04-14 20:18:14 +0100 |
| commit | 51015f14090d4d103954323435ea5710a204952d (patch) | |
| tree | 42548fd29cb9335d4918984438d2b309e5d8afd4 | |
| parent | aead9ac9bfa4bf8fc9b9d1d2ffa3a6d573fa760e (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-51015f14090d4d103954323435ea5710a204952d.tar.gz | |
write.2: Clarify that 'size_t' and 'ssize_t' are integer types specified in POSIX
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man2/write.2 b/man2/write.2 index a158f3fbc7..dcb1672cbe 100644 --- a/man2/write.2 +++ b/man2/write.2 @@ -205,6 +205,13 @@ Under SVr4 a write may be interrupted and return at any point, not just before any data is written. .SH NOTES +The types +.I size_t +and +.I ssize_t +are, respectively, +unsigned and signed integer data types specified by POSIX.1. + A successful return from .BR write () does not make any guarantee that data has been committed to disk. |