Re: [perl #67912] syswrite prints garbage if called with emptyscalar and non-zero offset

Vincent Pit wrote:
>But I don't think >= should be replaced by >, because an offset of n is
>outside a string of length n.

Offset of n is acceptable with a string of length n as long as you're not
intending to read more than zero chars from it.  The proper conditions
for acceptability are:

	write_length >= 0
	offset >= 0
	offset + write_length <= string_length

-zefram

• [perl #67912] syswrite prints garbage if called with empty scalar and non-zero offset by David Taylor
• Re: [perl #67912] syswrite prints garbage if called with empty scalar and non-zero offset by chromatic
• Re: [perl #67912] syswrite prints garbage if called with empty scalarand non-zero offset by Vincent Pit
• Re: [perl #67912] syswrite prints garbage if called with emptyscalar and non-zero offset by Zefram
• Re: [perl #67912] syswrite prints garbage if called with empty scalar and non-zero offset by Offer Kaye
• Re: [perl #67912] syswrite prints garbage if called with empty scalar and non-zero offset by Nicholas Clark