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--- informatica:sol:laboratorio20:esercitazionib:readnwriten [03/05/2020 alle 10:12 (5 anni fa)] – [readn and writen Functions] Massimo Torquati
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 ===== Implementazione delle funzioni "readn" e "writen" ====
-(tratto da "Advanced Programming In the UNIX Environment" 3rd Edition by W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago, 2013, Addison-Wesley)
+(tratto da "Advanced Programming In the UNIX Environment" by W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago, 2013, 3rd Edition, Addison-Wesley)
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 handle a return value that’s possibly less than requested. These two functions simply
 call read or write as many times as required to read or write the entire N bytes of
-data.
+data.\\
+We call writen whenever we’re writing to one of the file types that we mentioned,
+but we call readn only when we know ahead of time that we will be receiving a certain
+number of bytes. Figure 14.24 shows implementations of readn and writen that we
+will use in later examples.
+Note that if we encounter an error and have previously read or written any data, we
+return the amount of data transferred instead of the error. Similarly, if we reach the end
+of file while reading, we return the number of bytes copied to the caller’s buffer if we
+already read some data successfully and have not yet satisfied the amount requested.
 <code c>
 ssize_t  /* Read "n" bytes from a descriptor */
-writen(int fd, void *ptr, size_t n) {
+readn(int fd, void *ptr, size_t n) {
    size_t   nleft;
    ssize_t  nread;