Followup to: <200012022200.eB2M0Wu473578@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
By author: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Yeah, people write annoying little wrapper functions that
> bounce right back into the kernel until the job gets done.
> This is slow, it adds both source and object bloat, and it
> is a source of extra bugs. What a lovely API, eh?
>
> The fix: write_write_write_damnit() and read_read_read_damnit(),
> which go until they hit a fatal error or complete the job.
>
RTFM(fwrite), RTFM(fread).
-hpa
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