Subject: Re: Clean up sha1 file writing

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:44:32 -0700

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