mingw, MSVC 9.
@item
When writing to a non-blocking pipe on which no reader is currently waiting
-an amount of bytes that exceeds the pipe buffer's size, then -- even if the
-pipe's buffer is empty -- this function fails, instead of performing a partial
+an amount of bytes that exceeds the pipe buffer's size, then---even if the
+pipe's buffer is empty---this function fails, instead of performing a partial
write into the pipe buffer, on some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 9.
@end itemize
@item
This function may fail with error @code{EINTR}, even in programs that don't
install any signal handlers, on some platforms:
-MacOS X 10.5.
+Mac OS X 10.5.
@end itemize
For handling @code{EINTR}, Gnulib provides a module @samp{safe-write} with a