/* full-read.c -- an interface to read that retries after interrupts Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999 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 #include #if HAVE_UNISTD_H # include #endif #include #ifndef errno 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. */ ssize_t full_read (int desc, char *ptr, size_t len) { for (;;) { ssize_t n = read (desc, ptr, len); #ifdef EINTR if (n < 0 && errno == EINTR) continue; #endif return n; } }