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Expand Up @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ You now know how to output data to stdout using `write`.
But how does your program receive input data?
It `read`s it from stdin!

Like `write`, `read` is a system call that shunts data around between file descriptors and memory.
Like `write`, `read` is a system call that shunts data around between file descriptors and memory, and its syscall number is `0`.
In `read`'s case, it reads some amount of bytes from the provided file descriptor and stores them in memory.
The C-style syntax is the same as `write`:

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