From:	"A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: fread/fwite return value
Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:43:06 -0400
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Erik Max Francis wrote:
> 
> A. Sinan Unur wrote:
> 
> > that is at best worthless advice. the documentation in this case is
> > plain wrong. it is a small mistake, but fread is supposed to return 0 in
> > case of error.
> 
> Actually, fread (and fwrite) return the number of elements actually read
> (or written) -- an error condition is if this number is less than the
> number of elements you passed in.  Returning zero means _none_ of the
> elements got read (or written), but there are more failure cases than just
> that.

please guys, let it go. i corrected my stupid mistake several times
after that post.
  -- Sinan

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