/* full-write.c -- an interface to write that retries after interrupts Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 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. Copied largely from GNU C's cccp.c. */ #if HAVE_CONFIG_H # include #endif #include #include "safe-read.h" #if HAVE_UNISTD_H # include #endif #include #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. */ ssize_t full_write (int desc, const char *ptr, size_t len) { ssize_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) { #ifdef EINTR if (errno == EINTR) continue; #endif return written; } total_written += written; ptr += written; len -= written; } return total_written; }