/* * sb_write.c * * IO functions. * * Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation * Licensed under the GPL-2 */ #include "headers.h" #include "sbutil.h" /* General purpose function to _reliably_ write to a file * * If returned value is less than count, there was a fatal * error and value tells how many bytes were actually written */ size_t sb_write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count) { ssize_t n; size_t accum = 0; do { n = write(fd, buf + accum, count - accum); if (n < 0) { if (EINTR == errno) { /* Reset errno to not trigger DBG_MSG */ errno = 0; continue; } DBG_MSG("Failed to write to fd=%i!\n", fd); break; } accum += n; } while (accum < count); return accum; }