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WRITE(2)		   Linux Programmer's Manual		      WRITE(2)

NAME
       write - write to a file descriptor

SYNOPSIS
       #include <unistd.h>

       ssize_t write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);

DESCRIPTION
       write()	writes	up  to	count bytes from the buffer pointed buf to the
       file referred to by the file descriptor fd.

       The number of bytes written may be less than  count  if,	 for  example,
       there  is  insufficient space on the underlying physical medium, or the
       RLIMIT_FSIZE resource limit is encountered (see setrlimit(2)),  or  the
       call was interrupted by a signal handler after having written less than
       count bytes.  (See also pipe(7).)

       For a seekable file (i.e., one to which lseek(2) may  be	 applied,  for
       example,	 a  regular file) writing takes place at the current file off‐
       set, and the file offset is incremented by the number of bytes actually
       written.	  If  the file was open(2)ed with O_APPEND, the file offset is
       first set to the end of the file before writing.	 The adjustment of the
       file offset and the write operation are performed as an atomic step.

       POSIX  requires	that  a	 read(2)  which can be proved to occur after a
       write() has returned returns the new data.  Note that not all  filesys‐
       tems are POSIX conforming.

RETURN VALUE
       On  success,  the  number  of bytes written is returned (zero indicates
       nothing was written).  On error, -1  is	returned,  and	errno  is  set
       appropriately.

       If  count  is  zero  and	 fd refers to a regular file, then write() may
       return a failure status if one of the errors below is detected.	If  no
       errors  are  detected,  0  will	be  returned without causing any other
       effect.	If count is zero and fd refers to a file other than a  regular
       file, the results are not specified.

ERRORS
       EAGAIN The  file descriptor fd refers to a file other than a socket and
	      has been marked nonblocking (O_NONBLOCK), and  the  write	 would
	      block.

       EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK
	      The  file	 descriptor  fd refers to a socket and has been marked
	      nonblocking   (O_NONBLOCK),   and	  the	write	would	block.
	      POSIX.1-2001  allows  either error to be returned for this case,
	      and does not require these constants to have the same value,  so
	      a portable application should check for both possibilities.

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

       EDESTADDRREQ
	      fd  refers to a datagram socket for which a peer address has not
	      been set using connect(2).

       EDQUOT The user's quota of disk blocks on the filesystem containing the
	      file referred to by fd has been exhausted.

       EFAULT buf is outside your accessible address space.

       EFBIG  An attempt was made to write a file that exceeds the implementa‐
	      tion-defined maximum file size or the process's file size limit,
	      or to write at a position past the maximum allowed offset.

       EINTR  The  call	 was interrupted by a signal before any data was writ‐
	      ten; see signal(7).

       EINVAL fd is attached to an object which is unsuitable for writing;  or
	      the  file	 was  opened  with  the	 O_DIRECT flag, and either the
	      address specified in buf, the value specified in count,  or  the
	      current file offset is not suitably aligned.

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

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

       EPIPE  fd is connected to a pipe or socket whose reading end is closed.
	      When  this  happens the writing process will also receive a SIG‐
	      PIPE signal.  (Thus, the write return value is seen only if  the
	      program catches, blocks or ignores this signal.)

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

CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.

       Under  SVr4  a  write may be interrupted and return EINTR at any point,
       not just before any data is written.

NOTES
       A successful return from write() does not make any guarantee that  data
       has been committed to disk.  In fact, on some buggy implementations, it
       does not even guarantee that space has successfully been	 reserved  for
       the  data.   The	 only way to be sure is to call fsync(2) after you are
       done writing all your data.

       If a write() is interrupted by a signal handler before  any  bytes  are
       written, then the call fails with the error EINTR; if it is interrupted
       after at least one byte	has  been  written,  the  call	succeeds,  and
       returns the number of bytes written.

SEE ALSO
       close(2),  fcntl(2),  fsync(2), ioctl(2), lseek(2), open(2), pwrite(2),
       read(2), select(2), writev(2), fwrite(3)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.58 of the Linux  man-pages  project.   A
       description  of	the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux				  2013-01-27			      WRITE(2)
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