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Annotation of coherent/a/usr/man/MULTI/write, revision 1.1

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        !             3: write()                COHERENT System Call               write()
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        !             8: Write to a file
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        !            10: iinntt wwrriittee(_f_d, _b_u_f_f_e_r, _n)
        !            11: iinntt _f_d; cchhaarr *_b_u_f_f_e_r; iinntt _n;
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        !            13: write writes  n bytes of data, beginning  at address buffer, into
        !            14: the file associated  with the file descriptor fd.  Writing begins
        !            15: at the current write position, as  set by the last call to either
        !            16: write or lseek.  write  advances the position of the file pointer
        !            17: by the number of characters written.
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        !            19: ***** Example *****
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        !            21: For an  example of how  to use this  function, see the  entry for
        !            22: open.
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        !            24: ***** See Also *****
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        !            26: COHERENT system calls, STDIO
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        !            28: ***** Diagnostics *****
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        !            30: write returns -1 if  an error occurred before the write operation
        !            31: commenced, such  as a  bad file  descriptor fd or  invalid buffer
        !            32: pointer.  Otherwise, it  returns the number of bytes written.  It
        !            33: should be considered  an error if this number is  not the same as
        !            34: n.
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        !            36: ***** Notes *****
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        !            38: write is a low-level  call that passes data directly to COHERENT.
        !            39: It  should not  be mixed  with high-level  calls, such  as fread,
        !            40: fwrite, or fopen.
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