1 /* $Id: rd_bytes.c,v 1.7 1994/06/24 11:18:59 ceriel Exp $ */
3 * (c) copyright 1987 by the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
4 * See the copyright notice in the ACK home directory, in the file "Copyright".
9 #define MININT (1 << (sizeof(int) * 8 - 1))
10 #define MAXCHUNK (~MININT) /* Highest count we read(2). */
11 /* Unfortunately, MAXCHUNK is too large with some compilers. Put it in
15 static int maxchunk = MAXCHUNK;
18 * We don't have to worry about byte order here.
19 * Just read "cnt" bytes from file-descriptor "fd".
22 rd_bytes(fd, string, cnt)
23 register char *string;
28 register int n = cnt >= maxchunk ? maxchunk : cnt;
30 if (read(fd, string, n) != n)