Avoid panic on zero-byte writes to save files

This is a well-defined operation, so bwrite() should be able to
handle it. However, when running under glibc, fwrite() produces an
unexpected return value for 0-byte writes, which makes bwrite()
think that the write failed (causing a panic).

This change implements 0-byte writes by not calling into libc at
all, so that we don't have to worry about how to decode the return
value of fwrite().
This commit is contained in:
Alex Smith
2022-03-01 13:23:10 +00:00
parent 77bd50fd77
commit d63b59e6a1

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@@ -172,6 +172,13 @@ bwrite(int fd, const genericptr_t loc, unsigned num)
int idx = getidx(fd, NOFLG);
if (idx >= 0) {
if (num == 0) {
/* nothing to do; we need a special case to exit early
because glibc fwrite doesn't give reliable
success/failure indication when writing 0 bytes */
return;
}
#ifdef USE_BUFFERING
if (bw_buffered[idx] && bw_FILE[idx]) {
failed = (fwrite(loc, (int) num, 1, bw_FILE[idx]) != 1);