WRITE

WRITE

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUE ERRORS CONFORMING TO SEE ALSO

NAME

write - write to a file descriptor

SYNOPSIS

#include

ssize_t write(int fd__, const void

• buf, size_t__

count);

DESCRIPTION

write writes up to count bytes to the file referenced by the file descriptor fd from the buffer starting at buf. POSIX requires that a read() which can be proved to occur after a write() has returned returns the new data. Note that not all file systems are POSIX conforming.

RETURN VALUE

On success, the number of bytes written are returned (zero indicates nothing was written). On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. If count is zero and the file descriptor refers to a regular file, 0 will be returned without causing any other effect. For a special file, the results are not portable.

ERRORS

EBADF

fd is not a valid file descriptor or is not open for writing.

EINVAL

fd is attached to an object which is unsuitable for writing.

EFAULT

buf is outside your accessible address space.

EFBIG

An attempt was made to write a file that exceeds the implementation-defined maximum file size or the process' file size limit, or to write at a position past than the maximum allowed offset.

EPIPE

fd is connected to a pipe or socket whose reading end is closed. When this happens the writing process will receive a SIGPIPE signal; if it catches, blocks or ignores this the error EPIPE is returned.

EAGAIN

Non-blocking I/O has been selected using O_NONBLOCK and the write would block.

EINTR

The call was interrupted by a signal before any data was written.

ENOSPC

The device containing the file referred to by fd has no room for the data.

EIO

A low-level I/O error occurred while modifying the inode.

Other errors may occur, depending on the object connected to fd.

CONFORMING TO

SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, 4.3BSD. SVr4 documents additional error conditions EDEADLK, ENOLCK, ENOLNK, ENOSR, ENXIO, EPIPE, or ERANGE. Under SVr4 a write may be interrupted and return EINTR at any point, not just before any data is written.

SEE ALSO

open(2), read(2), fcntl(2), close(2), lseek(2), select(2), ioctl(2), fsync(2), fwrite(3)