util: Add helper to write() all of a buffer

write(2) might not write all the data it is given.  Add a write_all_buf()
helper to keep calling it until all the given data is written, or we get an
error.

Currently we use write_remainder() to do this operation in pcap_frame().
That's a little awkward since it requires constructing an iovec, and future
changes we want to make to write_remainder() will be easier in terms of
this single buffer helper.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/util.h b/util.h
index c7a59d5..5e67f1f 100644
--- a/util.h
+++ b/util.h
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ void pidfile_write(int fd, pid_t pid);
 int __daemon(int pidfile_fd, int devnull_fd);
 int fls(unsigned long x);
 int write_file(const char *path, const char *buf);
+int write_all_buf(int fd, const void *buf, size_t len);
 int write_remainder(int fd, const struct iovec *iov, size_t iovcnt, size_t skip);
 void close_open_files(int argc, char **argv);