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		yencabulator 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go Is a Well-Designed Language Go's Write makes a promise to not do short writes except on errors, which means it has to be a loop over write(2).

guappa 9 months ago [–]

Interesting. Does it return both the amount of partially written data AND the error if it fails?

yencabulator 9 months ago | [–]

Yes. https://pkg.go.dev/io#Writer

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