fd.h

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// Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
//
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#ifndef UTIL_IO_FD_H
#define UTIL_IO_FD_H 1

#include <unistd.h>

namespace isc {
namespace util {
namespace io {

/*
 * \short write() that writes everything.
 * Wrapper around write(). The difference is, it never writes less data
 * and looks successful (eg. it blocks until all data are written).
 * Retries on signals.
 *
 * \return True if successful, false otherwise. The errno variable is left
 *     intact.
 * \param fd Where to write.
 * \param data The buffer to write.
 * \param length How much data is there to write.
 */
bool
write_data(const int fd, const void *data, const size_t length);

/*
 * \short read() that reads everything.
 * Wrapper around read(). It does not do short reads, if it returns less,
 * it means there was EOF. It retries on signals.
 *
 * \return Number of bytes read or -1 on error.
 * \param fd Where to read data from.
 * \param data Where to put the data.
 * \param length How many of them.
 */
ssize_t
read_data(const int fd, void *buffer, const size_t length);

}
}
}

#endif // UTIL_IO_FD_H