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From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
Date: 1996/04/08
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Date: 1996-04-08T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.828987544@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>Can you quote the relevant standard. No description of read I ever saw
>was detailed or precise enough to say what the requirements on the caller
>are.

If it is not specified, it's undefined.  At least, that's how C does it;
no guarantees for POSIX.

-s
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