/* safe-read.c -- an interface to read that retries after interrupts Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 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. */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H #if defined (CONFIG_BROKETS) /* We use 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 #else #include "config.h" #endif #endif #include #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H #include #endif #include #ifndef STDC_HEADERS extern int errno; #endif /* Read LEN bytes at PTR from descriptor DESC, retrying if interrupted. Return the actual number of bytes read, zero for EOF, or negative for an error. */ int safe_read (desc, ptr, len) int desc; char *ptr; int len; { int n_chars; if (len <= 0) return len; #ifdef EINTR do { n_chars = read (desc, ptr, len); } while (n_chars < 0 && errno == EINTR); #else n_chars = read (desc, ptr, len); #endif return n_chars; }