From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 03:33:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Elaborate comment.
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-3_12j~55
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dee715bb6f63e2a1eb4842c1522476e9993523a5;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Elaborate comment.
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diff --git a/lib/full-write.c b/lib/full-write.c
index 2a65ac5e52..aa8cff35de 100644
--- a/lib/full-write.c
+++ b/lib/full-write.c
@@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ extern int errno;
 #endif
 
 /* Write LEN bytes at PTR to descriptor DESC, retrying if interrupted.
-   Return LEN upon success, write's (negative) error code otherwise.  */
+   Return LEN upon success, write's (negative) error code otherwise.
+   As the name implies, this function writes all LEN bytes and returns
+   LEN or it fails and returns the negative value returned by the (final)
+   failing write.  */
 
 int
 full_write (desc, ptr, len)