Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla on aix

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 08:51, address@hidden wrote:
> If the length is any non-positive number, this program runs happily; for
> length=zero, no output is produced, and it hangs.
> 
> Is this some weird corner of the C standard, or is AIX being
> pathologically odd?

I'd say pathologically odd. 
http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:Vo4NB1FxENoJ:nscp.upenn.edu/aix4.3html/libs/basetrf2/write.htm+zero+length+write+AIX&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Some interesting stuff there. Looks like write should (for you) return
-1 and set errno to ERANGE. The crashing is definately abnormal.

Rob
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