Include full-write.h, not safe-read.h.

[chaz/tar] / lib / full-write.c

diff --git a/lib/full-write.c b/lib/full-write.c
index 246cd37738a30a7f9778170e70c691b0696e7a95..1f5b78702931b4ed8b6a7fde11fd964bf0f9b81f 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/full-write.c
+++ b/lib/full-write.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* full-write.c -- an interface to write that retries after interrupts
-   Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright 1993,94,97,98,99,2000, 2001 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
@@ -35,28 +35,28 @@
 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.  */
+/* Write LEN bytes at PTR to descriptor DESC, retrying if interrupted
+   or if partial writes occur.  Return the number of bytes successfully
+   written, setting errno if that is less than LEN.  */
 
-ssize_t
+size_t
 full_write (int desc, const char *ptr, size_t len)
 {
-  ssize_t total_written = 0;
+  size_t total_written = 0;
 
   while (len > 0)
     {
       ssize_t written = write (desc, ptr, len);
-      /* FIXME: write on my slackware Linux 1.2.13 returns zero when
-        I try to write more data than there is room on a floppy disk.
-        This puts dd into an infinite loop.  Reproduce with
-        dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0.  */
-      if (written < 0)
+      if (written <= 0)
        {
+         /* Some buggy drivers return 0 when you fall off a device's end.  */
+         if (written == 0)
+           errno = ENOSPC;
 #ifdef EINTR
          if (errno == EINTR)
            continue;
 #endif
-         return written;
+         break;
        }
       total_written += written;
       ptr += written;