write.2: Clarify that 'size_t' and 'ssize_t' are integer types specified in POSIX

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2016-04-11 18:04:18 +02:00
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@ -205,6 +205,13 @@ Under SVr4 a write may be interrupted and return
at any point,
not just before any data is written.
.SH NOTES
The types
.I size_t
and
.I ssize_t
are, respectively,
unsigned and signed integer data types specified by POSIX.1.
A successful return from
.BR write ()
does not make any guarantee that data has been committed to disk.