/* An interface to write() that retries after interrupts. Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1998, 2002 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., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #if HAVE_CONFIG_H # include #endif /* Specification. */ #include "safe-write.h" /* Get ssize_t. */ #include #if HAVE_UNISTD_H # include #endif #include #ifndef errno extern int errno; #endif #include /* We don't pass an nbytes count > SSIZE_MAX to write() - POSIX says the effect would be implementation-defined. Also we don't pass an nbytes count > INT_MAX but <= SSIZE_MAX to write() - this triggers a bug in Tru64 5.1. */ #define MAX_BYTES_TO_READ INT_MAX /* Write up to COUNT bytes at BUF to descriptor FD, retrying if interrupted. Return the actual number of bytes written, zero for EOF, or (size_t) -1 for an error. */ size_t safe_write (int fd, const void *buf, size_t count) { size_t total_written = 0; if (count > 0) { const char *ptr = (const char *) buf; do { size_t nbytes_to_write = count; ssize_t result; /* Limit the number of bytes to write in one round, to avoid running into unspecified behaviour. But keep the file pointer block aligned when doing so. */ if (nbytes_to_write > MAX_BYTES_TO_READ) nbytes_to_write = MAX_BYTES_TO_READ & ~8191; result = write (fd, ptr, nbytes_to_write); if (result < 0) { #ifdef EINTR if (errno == EINTR) continue; #endif return result; } total_written += result; ptr += result; count -= result; } while (count > 0); } return total_written; }