Essentially this helper function is similar to close_stream(), but for
file descriptors.
When a file descriptors are close()'d status of write is often
overlooked. The close_fd() will try to determine what happen to writes
with fsync() before closing the file descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx>
---
include/closestream.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/closestream.h b/include/closestream.h
index d61b83b..2535c8b 100644
--- a/include/closestream.h
+++ b/include/closestream.h
@@ -48,4 +48,23 @@ close_stdout(void)
_exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
+#ifndef HAVE_FSYNC
+static inline int
+fsync(int fd __attribute__((__unused__)))
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
+static inline int
+close_fd(int fd)
+{
+ const int fsync_fail = (fsync(fd) != 0);
+ const int close_fail = (close(fd) != 0);
+
+ if (fsync_fail || close_fail)
+ return EOF;
+ return 0;
+}
+
#endif /* UTIL_LINUX_CLOSESTREAM_H */
--
1.8.2.1
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