source: MondoRescue/branches/2.2.5/mindi-busybox/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)
            return cc;  /* write() returns -1 on failure. */

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

    return total;
}