/*
* Utility routines.
*
- * Copyright (C) 1999,2000,2001 by Erik Andersen <andersee@debian.org>
+ * Copyright (C) 1999-2004 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
* This does multiple writes as necessary.
* Returns the amount written, or -1 on an error.
*/
-int full_write(int fd, const char *buf, int len)
+ssize_t bb_full_write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t len)
{
- int cc;
- int total;
+ ssize_t cc;
+ ssize_t total;
total = 0;
while (len > 0) {
- cc = write(fd, buf, len);
+ cc = safe_write(fd, buf, len);
if (cc < 0)
- return -1;
+ return cc; /* write() returns -1 on failure. */
- buf += cc;
total += cc;
+ buf = ((const char *)buf) + cc;
len -= cc;
}