On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:53:49PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Use safewrite in place of write, in many cases.
> And add "make syntax-check" rules to ensure no new uses sneak in.
>
> There are many uses of write like this:
>
> if (write (fd, xml, towrite) != towrite)
> return -1;
>
Use safewrite in place of write, in many cases.
And add "make syntax-check" rules to ensure no new uses sneak in.
There are many uses of write like this:
if (write (fd, xml, towrite) != towrite)
return -1;
The problem is that the syscall can succeed, yet write less than
the requested
