[bug #24009] does not check for short write()s

[Martin Pitt]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24009>

                 Summary: does not check for short write()s
                 Project: Guile
            Submitted by: martinpitt
            Submitted on: Mittwoch 06.08.2008 um 11:51
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

When building guile under current ubuntu (gcc-4.3, with FORTIFY_SOURCE=2), it
detects a lot of cases where write() is called without checking the return
value:

/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile i486-linux-gnu-gcc
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I.. -I.. -I..   -pthread -O2 -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
-Werror -MT libguile_la-async.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libguile_la-async.Tpo -c -o
libguile_la-async.lo `test -f 'async.c' || echo './'`async.c
 i486-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.. -I.. -pthread -O2 -g -Wall
-Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -MT libguile_la-async.lo -MD -MP -MF
.deps/libguile_la-async.Tpo -c async.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o
.libs/libguile_la-async.o
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
async.c: In function ‘scm_i_queue_async_cell’:
async.c:250: error: ignoring return value of ‘write’, declared with
attribute warn_unused_result

Some of those might actually be harmless and can be cast into (void), but in
most cases a short write is a source of unexpected and hard to debug errors.
Maybe consider using a full_write() wrapper (like in gnulib) which repeatedly
writes until everything is sent?




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