writev(2freebsd)

write, writev, pwrite, pwritev - write output

.Lb libc

.In unistd.h ssize_t write int fd const void *buf size_t nbytes ssize_t pwrite int fd const void *buf size_t nbytes off_t offset
.In sys/uio.h ssize_t writev int fd const struct iovec *iov int iovcnt ssize_t pwritev int fd const struct iovec *iov int iovcnt off_t offset

The write system call attempts to write nbytes of data to the object referenced by the descriptor fd from the buffer pointed to by buf. The writev system call performs the same action, but gathers the output data from the iovcnt buffers specified by the members of the iov array: iov[0], iov[1], ..., iov[iovcnt-1]. The pwrite and pwritev system calls perform the same functions, but write to the specified position in the file without modifying the file pointer.

struct iovec {
        void   *iov_base;  /* Base address. */
        size_t iov_len;    /* Length. */
};

Upon successful completion the number of bytes which were written is returned. Otherwise a -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

The write, writev, pwrite and pwritev system calls will fail and the file pointer will remain unchanged if:

[EBADF]
	The fd argument is not a valid descriptor open for writing.
[EPIPE]
	An attempt is made to write to a pipe that is not open for reading by any process.
[EPIPE]
	An attempt is made to write to a socket of type SOCK_STREAM that is not connected to a peer socket.
[EFBIG]
	An attempt was made to write a file that exceeds the process’s file size limit or the maximum file size.
[EFAULT]
	Part of iov or data to be written to the file points outside the process’s allocated address space.
[EINVAL]
	The pointer associated with fd was negative.
[ENOSPC]
	There is no free space remaining on the file system containing the file.
[EDQUOT]
	The user’s quota of disk blocks on the file system containing the file has been exhausted.
[EIO]	An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
[EINTR]
	A signal interrupted the write before it could be completed.
[EAGAIN]
	The file was marked for non-blocking I/O, and no data could be written immediately.
[EROFS]
	An attempt was made to write over a disk label area at the beginning of a slice. Use disklabel(8) -W to enable writing on the disk label area.
[EINVAL]
	The value nbytes is greater than SSIZE_MAX (or greater than INT_MAX, if the sysctl debug.iosize_max_clamp is non-zero).

[EDESTADDRREQ]
	The destination is no longer available when writing to a Unix domain datagram socket on which connect(2) had been used to set a destination address.
[EINVAL]
	The iovcnt argument was less than or equal to 0, or greater than IOV_MAX.
[EINVAL]
	One of the iov_len values in the iov array was negative.
[EINVAL]
	The sum of the iov_len values in the iov array overflowed a 32-bit integer.
[ENOBUFS]
	The mbuf pool has been completely exhausted when writing to a socket.

[EINVAL]
	The offset value was negative.
[ESPIPE]
	The file descriptor is associated with a pipe, socket, or FIFO.

fcntl(2), lseek(2), open(2), pipe(2), select(2)

The write system call is expected to conform to -p1003.1-90. The writev and pwrite system calls are expected to conform to -xpg4.2.

The pwritev system call appeared in
.Fx 6.0 . The pwrite function appeared in AT&T V.4 . The writev system call appeared in BSD 4.2 . The write function appeared in AT&T v1 .