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From: Bradd W. Szonye <bradds@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: RE: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
Date: 1996/04/19
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references: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.829048603@schonberg>
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x-netcom-date: Fri Apr 19  4:07:07 AM CDT 1996
newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
Date: 1996-04-19T04:07:07-05:00
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On Thursday, April 11, 1996, Robert A Duff wrote...
> In article <829194658snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>,
> Tom Wheeley  <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >What Robert is complaining about is that he is reading a 68 byte file
by
> >requesting 1000 bytes; and that in his opinion, read should stop
reading
> >at the end of the file, and return control.
> 
> No, I think Robert is complaining (quite correctly) that the
> documentation is unclear on this point.  You shouldn't have to rely on
> common sense to know what 'read' does in various error cases, or to know
> which cases are in fact considered errors.  The problem is that
> everybody's common sense doesn't match everybody else's, at least not in
> all cases.

Pardon me if this sounds silly, but...
You shouldn't have to rely on the documentation to make up for a lack of
common sense.

Bradd.