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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1996-02-27 03:33:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1996-02-27 03:33:23 +0000 |
| commit | dee715bb6f63e2a1eb4842c1522476e9993523a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 8852caca70107e4cba03150bf0abb238dcb095c7 /lib | |
| parent | edac0ff42083e2d42586caaca849cc5f7a260ede (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-dee715bb6f63e2a1eb4842c1522476e9993523a5.tar.xz | |
Elaborate comment.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/full-write.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/full-write.c b/lib/full-write.c index 2a65ac5e5..aa8cff35d 100644 --- a/lib/full-write.c +++ b/lib/full-write.c @@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ extern int errno; #endif /* Write LEN bytes at PTR to descriptor DESC, retrying if interrupted. - Return LEN upon success, write's (negative) error code otherwise. */ + Return LEN upon success, write's (negative) error code otherwise. + As the name implies, this function writes all LEN bytes and returns + LEN or it fails and returns the negative value returned by the (final) + failing write. */ int full_write (desc, ptr, len) |