HP C/iX Library Reference Manual (30026-90004)

Appendix C 383
System-Dependent Information
HP 3000 Series 900: The sleep function is implemented by calling the PAUSE intrinsic.
Signals will not interfere with the amount of time slept. Sleep returns its
argument if an error occurs, zero if no error occurs.
Seconds must be less than 2,147,485.
write
HP 9000 Series 700/800: If a write requests more bytes to be written than there is room
for, the write fails and -1 is returned.
An open option is available to specify whether or not a process should
block until the write request has completed.
HP 3000 Series 900: If a write requests more bytes to be written than the file size limit,
only as many bytes as there is room for are written. For example, if there
is space for 20 bytes more in a file before reaching a limit, a write of 512
bytes returns 20. The next write of a non-zero number of bytes gives a
failure return.
No open option is available to specify whether or not a process should
block until the write request has completed. A process blocks until the
write request is completed.