From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: fread/fwite return value
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:19:07 -0700
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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.

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