libbb/full_write.c

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/*
 * Utility routines.
 *
 * Copyright (C) 1999-2004 by Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
 *
 * Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
 */

#include "libbb.h"

/*
 * Write all of the supplied buffer out to a file.
 * This does multiple writes as necessary.
 * Returns the amount written, or -1 on an error.
 */
ssize_t full_write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t len)
{
	ssize_t cc;
	ssize_t total;

	total = 0;

	while (len) {
		cc = safe_write(fd, buf, len);

		if (cc < 0) {
			if (total) {
				/* we already wrote some! */
				/* user can do another write to know the error code */
				return total;
			}
			return cc;	/* write() returns -1 on failure. */
		}

		total += cc;
		buf = ((const char *)buf) + cc;
		len -= cc;
	}

	return total;
}