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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Clean up sha1 file writing
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:44:32 -0700
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 24 May 2006, Matthias Lederhofer wrote:
> 
>>> checking for partial writes
>> Just out of interest: is this to be safe on any OS or should this
>> be checked always?
> 
> Any POSIX-conformant OS/filesystem should always do a full write for a 
> regular file, unless a serious error happens.
> 

Actually, at least Linux won't, if the object is larger than 2 GB on a 64-bit system :)

	-hpa