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From: Sascha Retzki <lantis@iqranet.info>
Subject: Re: various doubts part 2
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:04:03 +0200
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Am Di, 2004-08-10 um 04.53 schrieb joy:
> 	outfile = open(filename,O_WRONLY|O_CREAT,S_IRWXU|S_IRWXO);
> 	while((bytes_read = read(STDIN_FILENO,buff,sizeof(buff))>0))
> 	{
> 		if((bytes_written = write(outfile , buff ,bytes_read))!=bytes_read)
> 		{
> 			fprintf(stderr,"write error");
> 			exit(1);
> 		}
> 	}

Why not reading from 'stdin' directly ? That FD is defined in stdio.h
iirc... What is STDIN_FILENO anyway :) ?