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| author | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2022-10-21 11:25:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2022-10-21 11:25:30 +0100 |
| commit | 5b2a3d77d320d76f12b1666938a9d58c2a848205 (patch) | |
| tree | 435466e4c1e4d0ede36dd3e499e91ffebf0166e4 /runtime/doc | |
| parent | 63c84731c1802bac36c1d1a82b3ef5960b35b089 (diff) | |
| download | vim-git-5b2a3d77d320d76f12b1666938a9d58c2a848205.tar.gz | |
patch 9.0.0810: readblob() returns empty when trying to read too muchv9.0.0810
Problem: readblob() returns empty when trying to read too much.
Solution: Return what is available.
Diffstat (limited to 'runtime/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/builtin.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt index 5b383fdfc..5cb0bd950 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt @@ -6866,8 +6866,10 @@ readblob({fname} [, {offset} [, {size}]]) *readblob()* readblob('/dev/ttyS0', 0, 10) < When the file can't be opened an error message is given and the result is an empty |Blob|. - When trying to read bytes beyond the end of the file the - result is an empty blob. + When the offset is beyond the end of the file the result is an + empty blob. + When trying to read more bytes than are available the result + is truncated. Also see |readfile()| and |writefile()|. |