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* If you write to an NFS-mounted file and write() returns an error, does it mean the block wasn't written to the remote disk?
* If you write to a TCP socket and write() returns OK, does it mean data was received by your network peer?
* UNIX pipes: how many times is your block being copied before it reaches your peer's buffer supplied to read()?
And don't get me started on signals.
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* If you write to an NFS-mounted file and write() returns an error, does it mean the block wasn't written to the remote disk?
* If you write to a TCP socket and write() returns OK, does it mean data was received by your network peer?
* UNIX pipes: how many times is your block being copied before it reaches your peer's buffer supplied to read()?
And don't get me started on signals.