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.\" $OpenBSD: write.2,v 1.7 1998/08/05 16:49:35 millert Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: write.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:39:43 cgd Exp $
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.\" @(#)write.2 8.5 (Berkeley) 4/2/94
.\"
.Dd July 28, 1998
.Dt WRITE 2
.Os BSD 4
.Sh NAME
.Nm write ,
.Nm writev
.Nd write output
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
.Fd #include <sys/uio.h>
.Fd #include <unistd.h>
.Ft ssize_t
.Fn write "int d" "const void *buf" "size_t nbytes"
.Ft ssize_t
.Fn writev "int d" "const struct iovec *iov" "int iovcnt"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Fn Write
attempts to write
.Fa nbytes
of data to the object referenced by the descriptor
.Fa d
from the buffer pointed to by
.Fa buf .
.Fn \ Writev
performs the same action, but gathers the output data
from the
.Fa iovcnt
buffers specified by the members of the
.Fa iov
array: iov[0], iov[1], ..., iov[iovcnt\|-\|1].
.Pp
For
.Fn writev ,
the
.Fa iovec
structure is defined as:
.Pp
.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
struct iovec {
void *iov_base;
size_t iov_len;
};
.Ed
.Pp
Each
.Fa iovec
entry specifies the base address and length of an area
in memory from which data should be written.
.Fn Writev
will always write a complete area before proceeding
to the next.
.Pp
On objects capable of seeking, the
.Fn write
starts at a position
given by the pointer associated with
.Fa d
(see
.Xr lseek 2 . )
Upon return from
.Fn write ,
the pointer is incremented by the number of bytes which were written.
.Pp
Objects that are not capable of seeking always write from the current
position. The value of the pointer associated with such an object
is undefined.
.Pp
If the real user is not the super-user, then
.Fn write
clears the set-user-id bit on a file.
This prevents penetration of system security
by a user who
.Dq captures
a writable set-user-id file
owned by the super-user.
.Pp
If
.Fn write
succeeds it will update the st_ctime and st_mtime fields of the file's
meta-data (see
.Xr stat 2 . )
.Pp
When using non-blocking I/O on objects such as sockets that are subject
to flow control,
.Fn write
and
.Fn writev
may write fewer bytes than requested;
the return value must be noted,
and the remainder of the operation should be retried when possible.
.Pp
Note that
.Fn writev
will fail if the value of
.Fa iovcnt
exceedes the constant
.Dv IOV_MAX .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion the number of bytes which were written
is returned. Otherwise a -1 is returned and the global variable
.Va errno
is set to indicate the error.
.Sh ERRORS
.Fn Write
and
.Fn writev
will fail and the file pointer will remain unchanged if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EBADF
.Fa D
is not a valid descriptor open for writing.
.It Bq Er EPIPE
An attempt is made to write to a pipe that is not open
for reading by any process.
.It Bq Er EPIPE
An attempt is made to write to a socket of type
.DV SOCK_STREAM
that is not connected to a peer socket.
.It Bq Er EFBIG
An attempt was made to write a file that exceeds the process's
file size limit or the maximum file size.
.It Bq Er EFAULT
Part of
.Fa iov
or data to be written to the file
points outside the process's allocated address space.
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The pointer associated with
.Fa d
was negative.
.It Bq Er ENOSPC
There is no free space remaining on the file system
containing the file.
.It Bq Er EDQUOT
The user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
containing the file has been exhausted.
.It Bq Er EIO
An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
.It Bq Er EAGAIN
The file was marked for non-blocking I/O,
and no data could be written immediately.
.El
.Pp
In addition,
.Fn write
may return following error:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
.Fa nbytes
was larger than
.Ev SSIZE_MAX .
.El
.Pp
Also,
.Fn writev
may return one of the following errors:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
.Fa Iovcnt
was less than or equal to 0, or greater than
.Dv IOV_MAX .
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The sum of the
.Fa iov_len
values in the
.Fa iov
array overflowed an
.Em ssize_t .
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr fcntl 2 ,
.Xr lseek 2 ,
.Xr open 2 ,
.Xr pipe 2 ,
.Xr select 2
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Fn write
function is expected to conform to
.St -p1003.1-88 .
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn writev
function call
appeared in
.Bx 4.2 .
The
.Fn write
function call appeared in
.At v6 .
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