From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:23:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Make read_in_full() and write_in_full() consistent with xread() and xwrite()
Message-ID: <7vlk2v1ysk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080427182158.GA29232@zakalwe.fi>

Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi> writes:

> Requesting comments on the following patch.
>
> xread() and xwrite() return ssize_t values as their native POSIX
> counterparts. To be consistent, read_in_full() and write_in_full()
> should also return ssize_t values.

I guess this change would not hurt.