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[PATH] [27.1] Make sure send-string-to-terminal send all contents

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, sunlin7 <at> yahoo.com, 44320 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lin.sun <at> zoom.us
Subject: bug#44320: [PATH] [27.1] Make sure send-string-to-terminal send all contents
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 20:12:52 +0200

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: lin.sun <at> zoom.us,  larsi <at> gnus.org,  sunlin7 <at> yahoo.com,
>   44320 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 19:02:32 +0100
> 
> >> Correct.  A partial write never reports an error.
> >
> > Not sure I understand the last sentence: in this case 'fwrite' should
> > have returned a value less than the amount it was asked to write, and
> > errno should have been set to EINTR, correct?
> 
> Only when it actually writes the data.  Without fflush, you will never
> know when that happens.

But that means 'fwrite' could return zero, if its very first call to
'write' got interrupted, no?  In which case the proposed patch would
not DTRT.

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