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+// Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+//
+// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+// License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+// file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+
+#ifndef UTIL_IO_FD_H
+#define UTIL_IO_FD_H 1
+
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+/**
+ * @file fd.h
+ * @short Wrappers around common unix fd manipulation functions.
+ */
+
+namespace isc {
+namespace util {
+namespace io {
+
+/*
+ * \short write() that writes everything.
+ * Wrapper around write(). The difference is, it never writes less data
+ * and looks successful (eg. it blocks until all data are written).
+ * Retries on signals.
+ *
+ * \return True if successful, false otherwise. The errno variable is left
+ *     intact.
+ * \param fd Where to write.
+ * \param data The buffer to write.
+ * \param length How much data is there to write.
+ */
+bool
+write_data(const int fd, const void *data, const size_t length);
+
+/*
+ * \short read() that reads everything.
+ * Wrapper around read(). It does not do short reads, if it returns less,
+ * it means there was EOF. It retries on signals.
+ *
+ * \return Number of bytes read or -1 on error.
+ * \param fd Where to read data from.
+ * \param data Where to put the data.
+ * \param length How many of them.
+ */
+ssize_t
+read_data(const int fd, void *buffer, const size_t length);
+
+}
+}
+}
+
+#endif // UTIL_IO_FD_H