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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1993-12-29 06:13:37 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1993-12-29 06:13:37 +0000
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+/* safe-write.c -- an interface to write that retries after interrupts
+ Copyright (C) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+ any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+
+ Copied largely from GNU C's cccp.c.
+ */
+
+#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+#if defined (CONFIG_BROKETS)
+/* We use <config.h> instead of "config.h" so that a compilation
+ using -I. -I$srcdir will use ./config.h rather than $srcdir/config.h
+ (which it would do because it found this file in $srcdir). */
+#include <config.h>
+#else
+#include "config.h"
+#endif
+#endif
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
+#include <unistd.h>
+#endif
+
+#include <errno.h>
+#ifndef STDC_HEADERS
+extern int errno;
+#endif
+
+/* Write LEN bytes at PTR to descriptor DESC, retrying if interrupted.
+ Return zero upon success, write's (negative) error code otherwise. */
+
+int
+safe_write (desc, ptr, len)
+ int desc;
+ char *ptr;
+ int len;
+{
+ while (len > 0)
+ {
+ int written = write (desc, ptr, len);
+ if (written < 0)
+ {
+#ifdef EINTR
+ if (errno == EINTR)
+ continue;
+#endif
+ return written;
+ }
+ ptr += written;
+ len -= written;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}