RFR: 8183227: read/write APIs in class os shall return ssize_t

Mon Jan 10 13:22:33 UTC 2022

On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 20:00:15 GMT, Harold Seigel <hseigel at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this small fix that changes the return type of os::write() to ssize_t.  No changes were needed for os::read() because its return type is ssize_t.  This fix was tested by running Mach5 tiers 1-2 on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows and Mach5 tiers 3-5 on Linux x64.
> Thanks, Harold

Thanks Fred and Robbin for the reviews!

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6992