# std: Make windows.ReadFile allow short reads · gitcafe/zig

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Commit: 9e1e91dafc9857b41a513c6c6506150f1a2f3f7f

Tree: 6554bf3976f30175494c6655937193b380396de8

Author: LemonBoy

Committer: Andrew Kelley

## Message

```
std: Make windows.ReadFile allow short reads

Make it behave like the read() wrapper for unix systems.
Reading the whole buffer breaks some use-cases like buffered readers
over sockets.

Closes #7121

```

## Parents

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