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  1. Wilfred Hughes (wilfredh@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2019 19:01:49 UTC Wilfred Hughes Wilfred Hughes

    Remarkable, sobering discussion of how hard it is to write bytes to a file robustly: https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/

    APIs are subtle, filesystems have different safety modes, they sometimes discard errors, not everyone complies with POSIX, and sometimes hardware doesn't meet its spec!

    In conversation Tuesday, 30-Jul-2019 19:01:49 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
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