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Author vitaly
Recipients gregory.p.smith, pitrou, vitaly
Date 2012-09-11.18:05:10
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The prior 'man 2 read' quote was from Mac OS X;

On amazon (centos) Linux, 'man 2 read' makes the same claim, albeit in different verbiage:

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It is not an error if this number is smaller than the number of bytes requested; this may happen for example because fewer bytes are actually available right now (maybe because we were close to  end-of-file,  or  because  we  are  reading  from a pipe, or from a terminal), or because read() was interrupted by a signal.
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