From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:44:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Clean up sha1 file writing
Message-ID: <44808710.1080000@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605241145490.5623@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 24 May 2006, Matthias Lederhofer wrote:
> 
>>> checking for partial writes
>> Just out of interest: is this to be safe on any OS or should this
>> be checked always?
> 
> Any POSIX-conformant OS/filesystem should always do a full write for a 
> regular file, unless a serious error happens.
> 

Actually, at least Linux won't, if the object is larger than 2 GB on a 64-bit system :)

	-hpa