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I did find this line of code quite entertaining: if((r = write(1, toWrite, len)) != (int) len) { /* 1 is stdout! */ If you're going to go to the effort t

I did find this line of code quite entertaining: if((r = write(1, toWrite, len)) != (int) len) { /* 1 is stdout! */ If you're going to go to the effort to add the comment, why not just use stdout instead of 1?

cperciva 10y ago
Because stdout is a FILE *. What he should have used is STDOUT_FILENO.
makapuf 10y ago
indeed, it's just a naive example but wouldn't something like int written = write(STDOUT_FILENO, toWrite, len); if (written != len) { ... be simpler ?