/*
* Utility routines.
*
- * Copyright (C) tons of folks. Tracking down who wrote what
- * isn't something I'm going to worry about... If you wrote something
- * here, please feel free to acknowledge your work.
+ * Copyright (C) 1999-2003 by Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
- *
- * Based in part on code from sash, Copyright (c) 1999 by David I. Bell
- * Permission has been granted to redistribute this code under the GPL.
- *
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include "libbb.h"
-
/*
* Read all of the supplied buffer from a file.
* This does multiple reads as necessary.
* Returns the amount read, or -1 on an error.
* A short read is returned on an end of file.
*/
-int full_read(int fd, char *buf, int len)
+ssize_t bb_full_read(int fd, void *buf, size_t len)
{
- int cc;
- int total;
+ ssize_t cc;
+ ssize_t total;
total = 0;
while (len > 0) {
- cc = read(fd, buf, len);
+ cc = safe_read(fd, buf, len);
if (cc < 0)
- return -1;
+ return cc; /* read() returns -1 on failure. */
if (cc == 0)
break;
- buf += cc;
+ buf = ((char *)buf) + cc;
total += cc;
len -= cc;
}