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diff --git a/lib/safe-write.h b/lib/safe-write.h new file mode 100644 index 0000000..31df322 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/safe-write.h @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +/* An interface to write() that retries after interrupts. + Copyright (C) 2002, 2009-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + + This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify + it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as + published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the + License, or (at your option) any later version. + + This file 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 Lesser General Public License for more details. + + You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License + along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ + +/* Some system calls may be interrupted and fail with errno = EINTR in the + following situations: + - The process is stopped and restarted (signal SIGSTOP and SIGCONT, user + types Ctrl-Z) on some platforms: Mac OS X. + - The process receives a signal for which a signal handler was installed + with sigaction() with an sa_flags field that does not contain + SA_RESTART. + - The process receives a signal for which a signal handler was installed + with signal() and for which no call to siginterrupt(sig,0) was done, + on some platforms: AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, OSF/1, Solaris. + + This module provides a wrapper around write() that handles EINTR. */ + +#include <stddef.h> + +#define SAFE_WRITE_ERROR ((size_t) -1) + +/* Write up to COUNT bytes at BUF to descriptor FD, retrying if interrupted. + Return the actual number of bytes written, zero for EOF, or SAFE_WRITE_ERROR + upon error. */ +extern size_t safe_write (int fd, const void *buf, size_t count); |