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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> |
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date | Tue, 27 Feb 1996 03:33:23 +0000 |
parents | bd90a233f266 |
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/* full-write.c -- an interface to write 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. Copied largely from GNU C's cccp.c. */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H #include <config.h> #endif #include <sys/types.h> #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H #include <unistd.h> #endif #include <errno.h> #ifndef errno extern int errno; #endif /* Write LEN bytes at PTR to descriptor DESC, retrying if interrupted. Return LEN upon success, write's (negative) error code otherwise. As the name implies, this function writes all LEN bytes and returns LEN or it fails and returns the negative value returned by the (final) failing write. */ int full_write (desc, ptr, len) int desc; char *ptr; size_t len; { int total_written; total_written = 0; while (len > 0) { int written = write (desc, ptr, len); if (written < 0) { #ifdef EINTR if (errno == EINTR) continue; #endif return written; } total_written += written; ptr += written; len -= written; } return total_written; }