/* ======================================================================== * Copyright 1988-2006 University of Washington * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * * ======================================================================== */ /* * Program: Write data, treating partial writes as an error * * Author: Mark Crispin * Networks and Distributed Computing * Computing & Communications * University of Washington * Administration Building, AG-44 * Seattle, WA 98195 * Internet: MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU * * Date: 26 May 1995 * Last Edited: 30 August 2006 */ /* The whole purpose of this unfortunate routine is to deal with DOS and * certain cretinous versions of UNIX which decided that the "bytes actually * written" return value from write() gave them license to use that for things * that are really errors, such as disk quota exceeded, maximum file size * exceeded, disk full, etc. * * BSD won't screw us this way on the local filesystem, but who knows what * some NFS-mounted filesystem will do. */ #undef write /* Write data to file * Accepts: file descriptor * I/O vector structure * number of vectors in structure * Returns: number of bytes written if successful, -1 if failure */ long maxposint = (long)((((unsigned long) 1) << ((sizeof(int) * 8) - 1)) - 1); long safe_write (int fd,char *buf,long nbytes) { long i,j; if (nbytes > 0) for (i = nbytes; i; i -= j,buf += j) { while (((j = write (fd,buf,(int) min (maxposint,i))) < 0) && (errno == EINTR)); if (j < 0) return j; } return nbytes; }