RE: write() writes too many bytes?

RE: write() writes too many bytes?

[Eric Buddington]

My apologies for bothering the list with this cool-sounding but bogus
problem; I only sent it accidentally (I discovered my mistake while
writing the original) and followed with a retraction which I stupidly
sent to the old rutgers address. Wish I had sent the original there,
too.

I was fooled by characters inserted by emacs when I loaded up the file
to look at it. I loaded it as text, then converted to hex. Emacs had
already added some '^'s to denote escape characters, and left them in.
My mistake.

-Eric

> My program write()s 2- and 4- byte chunks or data to a file (for a WAV
> header). When the data being written contains an 0xff byte, it is
> apparently written to disk as 2 bytes: 0x81ff.

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write() writes too many bytes?

[Eric Buddington]

OK, I know this is bizarre and probably some goof on my part, but it
is just too weird for me to guess at further:

My program write()s 2- and 4- byte chunks or data to a file (for a WAV
header). When the data being written contains an 0xff byte, it is
apparently written to disk as 2 bytes: 0x81ff.