by I'm not sure who maintains the man pages for Linux, but those for fread and
fwrite wrongly describe the return values.
The functions take a size parameter and a number-of-elements parameter.
They return the NUMBER OF ELEMENTS read or written, NOT the number of
characters.
Karl
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