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Bill Studenmund wrote:
> Then I get back the number of bytes read. If I get < 0, I got an error.

Well, the same manpage also says:

CAVEATS
     Error checks should explicitly test for -1.  Code such as

             while ((nr =3D read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf))) > 0)

     is not maximally portable, as some platforms allow for nbytes to range
     between SSIZE_MAX and SIZE_MAX - 2, in which case the return value of =
an
     error-free read() may appear as a negative number distinct from -1.
     Proper loops should use

             while ((nr =3D read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf))) !=3D -1 && nr !=3D =
0)


Maybe it's just me but everytime I see code which uses '< 0' or '>=3D 0'
I think "That's just not what the documentation says."
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Christian

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