minix/commands/aal/wr_bytes.c
2005-04-21 14:53:53 +00:00

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/* $Header$ */
/*
* (c) copyright 1987 by the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
* See the copyright notice in the ACK home directory, in the file "Copyright".
*/
#define MININT (1 << (sizeof(int) * 8 - 1))
#define MAXCHUNK (~MININT) /* Highest count we write(2). */
/* Notice that MAXCHUNK itself might be too large with some compilers.
You have to put it in an int!
*/
static int maxchunk = MAXCHUNK;
/*
* Just write "cnt" bytes to file-descriptor "fd".
*/
wr_bytes(fd, string, cnt)
register char *string;
register long cnt;
{
while (cnt) {
register int n = cnt >= maxchunk ? maxchunk : cnt;
if (write(fd, string, n) != n)
wr_fatal();
string += n;
cnt -= n;
}
}