From 51015f14090d4d103954323435ea5710a204952d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:04:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] write.2: Clarify that 'size_t' and 'ssize_t' are integer
 types specified in POSIX

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
---
 man2/write.2 | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man2/write.2 b/man2/write.2
index a158f3fbc..dcb1672cb 100644
--- a/man2/write.2
+++ b/man2/write.2
@@ -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.