Introduce ast_careful_fwrite() and use in AMI to prevent partial writes.

This patch introduces a function to do careful writes on a file stream which
will handle timeouts and partial writes.  It is currently used in AMI to
address the issue that has been reported.  However, there are probably a few
other places where this could be used.

(closes issue #13546)
Reported by: srt
Tested by: russell
http://reviewboard.digium.com/r/104/


git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@166282 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asterisk/utils.h b/include/asterisk/utils.h
index 1c676b8ee..941b5e57a 100644
--- a/include/asterisk/utils.h
+++ b/include/asterisk/utils.h
@@ -326,6 +326,25 @@ int ast_wait_for_input(int fd, int ms);
 */
 int ast_carefulwrite(int fd, char *s, int len, int timeoutms);
 
+/*!
+ * \brief Write data to a file stream with a timeout
+ *
+ * \param f the file stream to write to
+ * \param fd the file description to poll on to know when the file stream can
+ *        be written to without blocking.
+ * \param s the buffer to write from
+ * \param len the number of bytes to write
+ * \param timeoutms The maximum amount of time to block in this function trying
+ *        to write, specified in milliseconds.
+ *
+ * \note This function assumes that the associated file stream has been set up
+ *       as non-blocking.
+ *
+ * \retval 0 success
+ * \retval -1 error
+ */
+int ast_careful_fwrite(FILE *f, int fd, const char *s, size_t len, int timeoutms);
+
 /*
  * Thread management support (should be moved to lock.h or a different header)
  */