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Re: How to check for error with write(2)

From Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.unix.programmer
Subject Re: How to check for error with write(2)
Date 2021-12-20 13:52 +0000
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Scott Lurndal wrote:

> One may also catch the SIGXFSZ signal to ensure one detects file
> size resource limit violations (see setrlimit(2), signal(7))

Simpler just to set SIGXFSZ to SIG_IGN so that write() will fail
with EFBIG (which can then be handled in the normal way).

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Geoff Clare <netnews@gclare.org.uk>

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How to check for error with write(2) Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> - 2021-12-16 18:58 +0100
  Re: How to check for error with write(2) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-12-16 18:26 +0000
    Re: How to check for error with write(2) Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2021-12-20 13:52 +0000
  Re: How to check for error with write(2) Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2021-12-16 18:49 +0000
    Re: How to check for error with write(2) Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-16 19:00 +0000
  Re: How to check for error with write(2) Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-16 19:06 +0000
  Re: How to check for error with write(2) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2021-12-16 22:34 +0000
    Re: How to check for error with write(2) Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> - 2021-12-17 04:38 +0100
      Re: How to check for error with write(2) Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-17 15:14 +0000
      Re: How to check for error with write(2) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2021-12-18 10:25 +0000
  Re: How to check for error with write(2) Philip Guenther <guenther@gmail.com> - 2021-12-16 15:04 -0800
    Re: How to check for error with write(2) Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2021-12-16 20:10 -0700
    Re: How to check for error with write(2) Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> - 2021-12-17 04:35 +0100
      Re: How to check for error with write(2) Philip Guenther <guenther@gmail.com> - 2021-12-18 14:58 -0800
        Re: How to check for error with write(2) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-12-19 16:07 +0000

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