write function ?

[Tony B]

Hi,
I'm trying to understand a small cpp program which uses a function called
write.
An example of a line using this function is
write (hsocket,strclose,strlen(strclose)); where strclose is a string to
write, and hsocket is a int containing a socket handle.
The cpp program headers are
#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
using namespace std;
and an included netfunc.h containing prototypes for various c sockets
functions in a netfunc.c program (but NOT write).

This write function must be the sockets write function ? But how does this
function compile correctly in this case ? It's a c function in a cpp file ?
Thanks
Tony

[Alan Johnson]

Tony B wrote:

Hi,
I'm trying to understand a small cpp program which uses a function called
write.
An example of a line using this function is
write (hsocket,strclose,strlen(strclose)); where strclose is a string to
write, and hsocket is a int containing a socket handle.
The cpp program headers are
#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
using namespace std;
and an included netfunc.h containing prototypes for various c sockets
functions in a netfunc.c program (but NOT write).

This write function must be the sockets write function ? But how does this
function compile correctly in this case ? It's a c function in a cpp file ?
Thanks
Tony

Likely it is just luck. On my system <iostreameventually include
<unistd.h>, which is where write is declared. Of course, the C++
standard doesn't guarantee that (write isn't part of the standard C++
library), and I very seriously doubt POSIX makes any such guarantee either.

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Alan Johnson