Use Gnulib's `full-write' and `full-read' modules.

12 files changed, 1011 insertions, 48 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Makefile.am b/lib/Makefile.am
index 92d700f15..9d47816ef 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile.am
+++ b/lib/Makefile.am
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # the same distribution terms as the rest of that program.
 #
 # Generated by gnulib-tool.
-# Reproduce by: gnulib-tool --import --dir=. --lib=libgnu --source-base=lib --m4-base=m4 --doc-base=doc --tests-base=tests --aux-dir=build-aux --lgpl --libtool --macro-prefix=gl alloca autobuild count-one-bits extensions strcase strftime
+# Reproduce by: gnulib-tool --import --dir=. --lib=libgnu --source-base=lib --m4-base=m4 --doc-base=doc --tests-base=tests --aux-dir=build-aux --lgpl --libtool --macro-prefix=gl alloca autobuild count-one-bits extensions full-read full-write strcase strftime
 
 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.5 gnits
 
@@ -71,6 +71,18 @@ EXTRA_DIST += count-one-bits.h
 
 ## end   gnulib module count-one-bits
 
+## begin gnulib module full-read
+
+libgnu_la_SOURCES += full-read.h full-read.c
+
+## end   gnulib module full-read
+
+## begin gnulib module full-write
+
+libgnu_la_SOURCES += full-write.h full-write.c
+
+## end   gnulib module full-write
+
 ## begin gnulib module link-warning
 
 LINK_WARNING_H=$(top_srcdir)/build-aux/link-warning.h
@@ -79,6 +91,24 @@ EXTRA_DIST += $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/link-warning.h
 
 ## end   gnulib module link-warning
 
+## begin gnulib module safe-read
+
+
+EXTRA_DIST += safe-read.c safe-read.h
+
+EXTRA_libgnu_la_SOURCES += safe-read.c
+
+## end   gnulib module safe-read
+
+## begin gnulib module safe-write
+
+
+EXTRA_DIST += safe-write.c safe-write.h
+
+EXTRA_libgnu_la_SOURCES += safe-write.c
+
+## end   gnulib module safe-write
+
 ## begin gnulib module stdbool
 
 BUILT_SOURCES += $(STDBOOL_H)
@@ -175,6 +205,74 @@ EXTRA_libgnu_la_SOURCES += time_r.c
 
 ## end   gnulib module time_r
 
+## begin gnulib module unistd
+
+BUILT_SOURCES += unistd.h
+
+# We need the following in order to create an empty placeholder for
+# <unistd.h> when the system doesn't have one.
+unistd.h: unistd.in.h
+	rm -f $@-t $@
+	{ echo '/* DO NOT EDIT! GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY! */'; \
+	  sed -e 's|@''HAVE_UNISTD_H''@|$(HAVE_UNISTD_H)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''INCLUDE_NEXT''@|$(INCLUDE_NEXT)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''PRAGMA_SYSTEM_HEADER''@|@PRAGMA_SYSTEM_HEADER@|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''NEXT_UNISTD_H''@|$(NEXT_UNISTD_H)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_CHOWN''@|$(GNULIB_CHOWN)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_CLOSE''@|$(GNULIB_CLOSE)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_DUP2''@|$(GNULIB_DUP2)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_ENVIRON''@|$(GNULIB_ENVIRON)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_EUIDACCESS''@|$(GNULIB_EUIDACCESS)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_FCHDIR''@|$(GNULIB_FCHDIR)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_FSYNC''@|$(GNULIB_FSYNC)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_FTRUNCATE''@|$(GNULIB_FTRUNCATE)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_GETCWD''@|$(GNULIB_GETCWD)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_GETDOMAINNAME''@|$(GNULIB_GETDOMAINNAME)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_GETDTABLESIZE''@|$(GNULIB_GETDTABLESIZE)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_GETHOSTNAME''@|$(GNULIB_GETHOSTNAME)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_GETLOGIN_R''@|$(GNULIB_GETLOGIN_R)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_GETPAGESIZE''@|$(GNULIB_GETPAGESIZE)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_GETUSERSHELL''@|$(GNULIB_GETUSERSHELL)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_LCHOWN''@|$(GNULIB_LCHOWN)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_LSEEK''@|$(GNULIB_LSEEK)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_READLINK''@|$(GNULIB_READLINK)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_SLEEP''@|$(GNULIB_SLEEP)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_UNISTD_H_SIGPIPE''@|$(GNULIB_UNISTD_H_SIGPIPE)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''GNULIB_WRITE''@|$(GNULIB_WRITE)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''HAVE_DUP2''@|$(HAVE_DUP2)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''HAVE_EUIDACCESS''@|$(HAVE_EUIDACCESS)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''HAVE_FSYNC''@|$(HAVE_FSYNC)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''HAVE_FTRUNCATE''@|$(HAVE_FTRUNCATE)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''HAVE_GETDOMAINNAME''@|$(HAVE_GETDOMAINNAME)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''HAVE_GETDTABLESIZE''@|$(HAVE_GETDTABLESIZE)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''HAVE_GETHOSTNAME''@|$(HAVE_GETHOSTNAME)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''HAVE_GETPAGESIZE''@|$(HAVE_GETPAGESIZE)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''HAVE_GETUSERSHELL''@|$(HAVE_GETUSERSHELL)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''HAVE_READLINK''@|$(HAVE_READLINK)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''HAVE_SLEEP''@|$(HAVE_SLEEP)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''HAVE_DECL_ENVIRON''@|$(HAVE_DECL_ENVIRON)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''HAVE_DECL_GETLOGIN_R''@|$(HAVE_DECL_GETLOGIN_R)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''HAVE_OS_H''@|$(HAVE_OS_H)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H''@|$(HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''REPLACE_CHOWN''@|$(REPLACE_CHOWN)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''REPLACE_CLOSE''@|$(REPLACE_CLOSE)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''REPLACE_FCHDIR''@|$(REPLACE_FCHDIR)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''REPLACE_GETCWD''@|$(REPLACE_GETCWD)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''REPLACE_GETPAGESIZE''@|$(REPLACE_GETPAGESIZE)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''REPLACE_LCHOWN''@|$(REPLACE_LCHOWN)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''REPLACE_LSEEK''@|$(REPLACE_LSEEK)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''REPLACE_WRITE''@|$(REPLACE_WRITE)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''UNISTD_H_HAVE_WINSOCK2_H''@|$(UNISTD_H_HAVE_WINSOCK2_H)|g' \
+	      -e '/definition of GL_LINK_WARNING/r $(LINK_WARNING_H)' \
+	      < $(srcdir)/unistd.in.h; \
+	} > $@-t
+	mv $@-t $@
+MOSTLYCLEANFILES += unistd.h unistd.h-t
+
+EXTRA_DIST += unistd.in.h
+
+## end   gnulib module unistd
+
 ## begin gnulib module verify
 
 libgnu_la_SOURCES += verify.h
@@ -208,11 +306,14 @@ EXTRA_DIST += wchar.in.h
 
 ## end   gnulib module wchar
 
-## begin gnulib module dummy
+## begin gnulib module write
+
+
+EXTRA_DIST += write.c
 
-libgnu_la_SOURCES += dummy.c
+EXTRA_libgnu_la_SOURCES += write.c
 
-## end   gnulib module dummy
+## end   gnulib module write
 
 
 mostlyclean-local: mostlyclean-generic
diff --git a/lib/dummy.c b/lib/dummy.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 37fff11da..000000000
--- a/lib/dummy.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-/* A dummy file, to prevent empty libraries from breaking builds.
-   Copyright (C) 2004, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
-   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
-   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
-   (at your option) any later version.
-
-   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
-
-   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
-   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
-
-/* Some systems, reportedly OpenBSD and Mac OS X, refuse to create
-   libraries without any object files.  You might get an error like:
-
-   > ar cru .libs/libgl.a
-   > ar: no archive members specified
-
-   Compiling this file, and adding its object file to the library, will
-   prevent the library from being empty.  */
-
-/* Some systems, such as Solaris with cc 5.0, refuse to work with libraries
-   that don't export any symbol.  You might get an error like:
-
-   > cc ... libgnu.a
-   > ild: (bad file) garbled symbol table in archive ../gllib/libgnu.a
-
-   Compiling this file, and adding its object file to the library, will
-   prevent the library from exporting no symbols.  */
-
-#ifdef __sun
-/* This declaration ensures that the library will export at least 1 symbol.  */
-int gl_dummy_symbol;
-#else
-/* This declaration is solely to ensure that after preprocessing
-   this file is never empty.  */
-typedef int dummy;
-#endif
diff --git a/lib/full-write.c b/lib/full-write.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a665b5234
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/full-write.c
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+/* An interface to read and write that retries (if necessary) until complete.
+
+   Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
+   2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+/* Specification.  */
+#ifdef FULL_READ
+# include "full-read.h"
+#else
+# include "full-write.h"
+#endif
+
+#include <errno.h>
+
+#ifdef FULL_READ
+# include "safe-read.h"
+# define safe_rw safe_read
+# define full_rw full_read
+# undef const
+# define const /* empty */
+#else
+# include "safe-write.h"
+# define safe_rw safe_write
+# define full_rw full_write
+#endif
+
+#ifdef FULL_READ
+/* Set errno to zero upon EOF.  */
+# define ZERO_BYTE_TRANSFER_ERRNO 0
+#else
+/* Some buggy drivers return 0 when one tries to write beyond
+   a device's end.  (Example: Linux 1.2.13 on /dev/fd0.)
+   Set errno to ENOSPC so they get a sensible diagnostic.  */
+# define ZERO_BYTE_TRANSFER_ERRNO ENOSPC
+#endif
+
+/* Write(read) COUNT bytes at BUF to(from) descriptor FD, retrying if
+   interrupted or if a partial write(read) occurs.  Return the number
+   of bytes transferred.
+   When writing, set errno if fewer than COUNT bytes are written.
+   When reading, if fewer than COUNT bytes are read, you must examine
+   errno to distinguish failure from EOF (errno == 0).  */
+size_t
+full_rw (int fd, const void *buf, size_t count)
+{
+  size_t total = 0;
+  const char *ptr = (const char *) buf;
+
+  while (count > 0)
+    {
+      size_t n_rw = safe_rw (fd, ptr, count);
+      if (n_rw == (size_t) -1)
+	break;
+      if (n_rw == 0)
+	{
+	  errno = ZERO_BYTE_TRANSFER_ERRNO;
+	  break;
+	}
+      total += n_rw;
+      ptr += n_rw;
+      count -= n_rw;
+    }
+
+  return total;
+}
diff --git a/lib/full-write.h b/lib/full-write.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3857e87bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/full-write.h
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/* An interface to write() that writes all it is asked to write.
+
+   Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+
+/* Write COUNT bytes at BUF to descriptor FD, retrying if interrupted
+   or if partial writes occur.  Return the number of bytes successfully
+   written, setting errno if that is less than COUNT.  */
+extern size_t full_write (int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);
+
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
diff --git a/lib/safe-read.c b/lib/safe-read.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2e43070da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/safe-read.c
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+/* An interface to read and write that retries after interrupts.
+
+   Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free
+   Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+/* Specification.  */
+#ifdef SAFE_WRITE
+# include "safe-write.h"
+#else
+# include "safe-read.h"
+#endif
+
+/* Get ssize_t.  */
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include <errno.h>
+
+#ifdef EINTR
+# define IS_EINTR(x) ((x) == EINTR)
+#else
+# define IS_EINTR(x) 0
+#endif
+
+#include <limits.h>
+
+#ifdef SAFE_WRITE
+# define safe_rw safe_write
+# define rw write
+#else
+# define safe_rw safe_read
+# define rw read
+# undef const
+# define const /* empty */
+#endif
+
+/* Read(write) up to COUNT bytes at BUF from(to) descriptor FD, retrying if
+   interrupted.  Return the actual number of bytes read(written), zero for EOF,
+   or SAFE_READ_ERROR(SAFE_WRITE_ERROR) upon error.  */
+size_t
+safe_rw (int fd, void const *buf, size_t count)
+{
+  /* Work around a bug in Tru64 5.1.  Attempting to read more than
+     INT_MAX bytes fails with errno == EINVAL.  See
+     <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-04/msg00010.html>.
+     When decreasing COUNT, keep it block-aligned.  */
+  enum { BUGGY_READ_MAXIMUM = INT_MAX & ~8191 };
+
+  for (;;)
+    {
+      ssize_t result = rw (fd, buf, count);
+
+      if (0 <= result)
+	return result;
+      else if (IS_EINTR (errno))
+	continue;
+      else if (errno == EINVAL && BUGGY_READ_MAXIMUM < count)
+	count = BUGGY_READ_MAXIMUM;
+      else
+	return result;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/lib/safe-read.h b/lib/safe-read.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..103fc3fa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/safe-read.h
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/* An interface to read() that retries after interrupts.
+   Copyright (C) 2002, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+
+#define SAFE_READ_ERROR ((size_t) -1)
+
+/* Read up to COUNT bytes at BUF from descriptor FD, retrying if interrupted.
+   Return the actual number of bytes read, zero for EOF, or SAFE_READ_ERROR
+   upon error.  */
+extern size_t safe_read (int fd, void *buf, size_t count);
+
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
diff --git a/lib/safe-write.c b/lib/safe-write.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fcd5c42df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/safe-write.c
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/* An interface to write that retries after interrupts.
+   Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#define SAFE_WRITE
+#include "safe-read.c"
diff --git a/lib/safe-write.h b/lib/safe-write.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..51e3dcbba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/safe-write.h
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/* An interface to write() that retries after interrupts.
+   Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+#define SAFE_WRITE_ERROR ((size_t) -1)
+
+/* Write up to COUNT bytes at BUF to descriptor FD, retrying if interrupted.
+   Return the actual number of bytes written, zero for EOF, or SAFE_WRITE_ERROR
+   upon error.  */
+extern size_t safe_write (int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);
diff --git a/lib/unistd.in.h b/lib/unistd.in.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f0b9b3b93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/unistd.in.h
@@ -0,0 +1,553 @@
+/* Substitute for and wrapper around <unistd.h>.
+   Copyright (C) 2003-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+   any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+   Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */
+
+#ifndef _GL_UNISTD_H
+
+#if __GNUC__ >= 3
+@PRAGMA_SYSTEM_HEADER@
+#endif
+
+/* The include_next requires a split double-inclusion guard.  */
+#if @HAVE_UNISTD_H@
+# @INCLUDE_NEXT@ @NEXT_UNISTD_H@
+#endif
+
+#ifndef _GL_UNISTD_H
+#define _GL_UNISTD_H
+
+/* mingw doesn't define the SEEK_* macros in <unistd.h>.  */
+#if !(defined SEEK_CUR && defined SEEK_END && defined SEEK_SET)
+# include <stdio.h>
+#endif
+
+/* mingw fails to declare _exit in <unistd.h>.  */
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+#if @GNULIB_WRITE@ && @REPLACE_WRITE@ && @GNULIB_UNISTD_H_SIGPIPE@
+/* Get ssize_t.  */
+# include <sys/types.h>
+#endif
+
+#if @GNULIB_GETHOSTNAME@
+/* Get all possible declarations of gethostname().  */
+# if @UNISTD_H_HAVE_WINSOCK2_H@
+#  include <winsock2.h>
+#  if !defined _GL_SYS_SOCKET_H
+#   undef socket
+#   define socket		socket_used_without_including_sys_socket_h
+#   undef connect
+#   define connect		connect_used_without_including_sys_socket_h
+#   undef accept
+#   define accept		accept_used_without_including_sys_socket_h
+#   undef bind
+#   define bind			bind_used_without_including_sys_socket_h
+#   undef getpeername
+#   define getpeername		getpeername_used_without_including_sys_socket_h
+#   undef getsockname
+#   define getsockname		getsockname_used_without_including_sys_socket_h
+#   undef getsockopt
+#   define getsockopt		getsockopt_used_without_including_sys_socket_h
+#   undef listen
+#   define listen		listen_used_without_including_sys_socket_h
+#   undef recv
+#   define recv			recv_used_without_including_sys_socket_h
+#   undef send
+#   define send			send_used_without_including_sys_socket_h
+#   undef recvfrom
+#   define recvfrom		recvfrom_used_without_including_sys_socket_h
+#   undef sendto
+#   define sendto		sendto_used_without_including_sys_socket_h
+#   undef setsockopt
+#   define setsockopt		setsockopt_used_without_including_sys_socket_h
+#   undef shutdown
+#   define shutdown		shutdown_used_without_including_sys_socket_h
+#  endif
+#  if !defined _GL_SYS_SELECT_H
+#   undef select
+#   define select		select_used_without_including_sys_select_h
+#  endif
+# endif
+#endif
+
+/* The definition of GL_LINK_WARNING is copied here.  */
+
+
+/* Declare overridden functions.  */
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_CHOWN@
+# if @REPLACE_CHOWN@
+#  ifndef REPLACE_CHOWN
+#   define REPLACE_CHOWN 1
+#  endif
+#  if REPLACE_CHOWN
+/* Change the owner of FILE to UID (if UID is not -1) and the group of FILE
+   to GID (if GID is not -1).  Follow symbolic links.
+   Return 0 if successful, otherwise -1 and errno set.
+   See the POSIX:2001 specification
+   <http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/chown.html>.  */
+#   define chown rpl_chown
+extern int chown (const char *file, uid_t uid, gid_t gid);
+#  endif
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef chown
+# define chown(f,u,g) \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("chown fails to follow symlinks on some systems and " \
+                      "doesn't treat a uid or gid of -1 on some systems - " \
+                      "use gnulib module chown for portability"), \
+     chown (f, u, g))
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_CLOSE@
+# if @UNISTD_H_HAVE_WINSOCK2_H@
+/* Need a gnulib internal function.  */
+#  define HAVE__GL_CLOSE_FD_MAYBE_SOCKET 1
+# endif
+# if @REPLACE_CLOSE@
+/* Automatically included by modules that need a replacement for close.  */
+#  undef close
+#  define close rpl_close
+extern int close (int);
+# endif
+#elif @UNISTD_H_HAVE_WINSOCK2_H@
+# undef close
+# define close close_used_without_requesting_gnulib_module_close
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef close
+# define close(f) \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("close does not portably work on sockets - " \
+                      "use gnulib module close for portability"), \
+     close (f))
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_DUP2@
+# if !@HAVE_DUP2@
+/* Copy the file descriptor OLDFD into file descriptor NEWFD.  Do nothing if
+   NEWFD = OLDFD, otherwise close NEWFD first if it is open.
+   Return 0 if successful, otherwise -1 and errno set.
+   See the POSIX:2001 specification
+   <http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/dup2.html>.  */
+extern int dup2 (int oldfd, int newfd);
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef dup2
+# define dup2(o,n) \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("dup2 is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module dup2 for portability"), \
+     dup2 (o, n))
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_ENVIRON@
+# if !@HAVE_DECL_ENVIRON@
+/* Set of environment variables and values.  An array of strings of the form
+   "VARIABLE=VALUE", terminated with a NULL.  */
+#  if defined __APPLE__ && defined __MACH__
+#   include <crt_externs.h>
+#   define environ (*_NSGetEnviron ())
+#  else
+extern char **environ;
+#  endif
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef environ
+# define environ \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("environ is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module environ for portability"), \
+     environ)
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_EUIDACCESS@
+# if !@HAVE_EUIDACCESS@
+/* Like access(), except that is uses the effective user id and group id of
+   the current process.  */
+extern int euidaccess (const char *filename, int mode);
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef euidaccess
+# define euidaccess(f,m) \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("euidaccess is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module euidaccess for portability"), \
+     euidaccess (f, m))
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_FCHDIR@
+# if @REPLACE_FCHDIR@
+
+/* Change the process' current working directory to the directory on which
+   the given file descriptor is open.
+   Return 0 if successful, otherwise -1 and errno set.
+   See the POSIX:2001 specification
+   <http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/fchdir.html>.  */
+extern int fchdir (int /*fd*/);
+
+#  define dup rpl_dup
+extern int dup (int);
+#  define dup2 rpl_dup2
+extern int dup2 (int, int);
+
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef fchdir
+# define fchdir(f) \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("fchdir is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module fchdir for portability"), \
+     fchdir (f))
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_FSYNC@
+/* Synchronize changes to a file.
+   Return 0 if successful, otherwise -1 and errno set.
+   See POSIX:2001 specification
+   <http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/fsync.html>.  */
+# if !@HAVE_FSYNC@
+extern int fsync (int fd);
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef fsync
+# define fsync(fd) \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("fsync is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module fsync for portability"), \
+     fsync (fd))
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_FTRUNCATE@
+# if !@HAVE_FTRUNCATE@
+/* Change the size of the file to which FD is opened to become equal to LENGTH.
+   Return 0 if successful, otherwise -1 and errno set.
+   See the POSIX:2001 specification
+   <http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/ftruncate.html>.  */
+extern int ftruncate (int fd, off_t length);
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef ftruncate
+# define ftruncate(f,l) \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("ftruncate is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module ftruncate for portability"), \
+     ftruncate (f, l))
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_GETCWD@
+/* Include the headers that might declare getcwd so that they will not
+   cause confusion if included after this file.  */
+# include <stdlib.h>
+# if @REPLACE_GETCWD@
+/* Get the name of the current working directory, and put it in SIZE bytes
+   of BUF.
+   Return BUF if successful, or NULL if the directory couldn't be determined
+   or SIZE was too small.
+   See the POSIX:2001 specification
+   <http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/getcwd.html>.
+   Additionally, the gnulib module 'getcwd' guarantees the following GNU
+   extension: If BUF is NULL, an array is allocated with 'malloc'; the array
+   is SIZE bytes long, unless SIZE == 0, in which case it is as big as
+   necessary.  */
+#  define getcwd rpl_getcwd
+extern char * getcwd (char *buf, size_t size);
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef getcwd
+# define getcwd(b,s) \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("getcwd is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module getcwd for portability"), \
+     getcwd (b, s))
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_GETDOMAINNAME@
+/* Return the NIS domain name of the machine.
+   WARNING! The NIS domain name is unrelated to the fully qualified host name
+            of the machine.  It is also unrelated to email addresses.
+   WARNING! The NIS domain name is usually the empty string or "(none)" when
+            not using NIS.
+
+   Put up to LEN bytes of the NIS domain name into NAME.
+   Null terminate it if the name is shorter than LEN.
+   If the NIS domain name is longer than LEN, set errno = EINVAL and return -1.
+   Return 0 if successful, otherwise set errno and return -1.  */
+# if !@HAVE_GETDOMAINNAME@
+extern int getdomainname(char *name, size_t len);
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef getdomainname
+# define getdomainname(n,l) \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("getdomainname is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module getdomainname for portability"), \
+     getdomainname (n, l))
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_GETDTABLESIZE@
+# if !@HAVE_GETDTABLESIZE@
+/* Return the maximum number of file descriptors in the current process.  */
+extern int getdtablesize (void);
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef getdtablesize
+# define getdtablesize() \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("getdtablesize is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module getdtablesize for portability"), \
+     getdtablesize ())
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_GETHOSTNAME@
+/* Return the standard host name of the machine.
+   WARNING! The host name may or may not be fully qualified.
+
+   Put up to LEN bytes of the host name into NAME.
+   Null terminate it if the name is shorter than LEN.
+   If the host name is longer than LEN, set errno = EINVAL and return -1.
+   Return 0 if successful, otherwise set errno and return -1.  */
+# if @UNISTD_H_HAVE_WINSOCK2_H@
+#  undef gethostname
+#  define gethostname rpl_gethostname
+# endif
+# if @UNISTD_H_HAVE_WINSOCK2_H@ || !@HAVE_GETHOSTNAME@
+extern int gethostname(char *name, size_t len);
+# endif
+#elif @UNISTD_H_HAVE_WINSOCK2_H@
+# undef gethostname
+# define gethostname gethostname_used_without_requesting_gnulib_module_gethostname
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef gethostname
+# define gethostname(n,l) \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("gethostname is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module gethostname for portability"), \
+     gethostname (n, l))
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_GETLOGIN_R@
+/* Copies the user's login name to NAME.
+   The array pointed to by NAME has room for SIZE bytes.
+
+   Returns 0 if successful.  Upon error, an error number is returned, or -1 in
+   the case that the login name cannot be found but no specific error is
+   provided (this case is hopefully rare but is left open by the POSIX spec).
+
+   See <http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/getlogin.html>.
+ */
+# if !@HAVE_DECL_GETLOGIN_R@
+#  include <stddef.h>
+extern int getlogin_r (char *name, size_t size);
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef getlogin_r
+# define getlogin_r(n,s) \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("getlogin_r is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module getlogin_r for portability"), \
+     getlogin_r (n, s))
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_GETPAGESIZE@
+# if @REPLACE_GETPAGESIZE@
+#  define getpagesize rpl_getpagesize
+extern int getpagesize (void);
+# elif !@HAVE_GETPAGESIZE@
+/* This is for POSIX systems.  */
+#  if !defined getpagesize && defined _SC_PAGESIZE
+#   if ! (defined __VMS && __VMS_VER < 70000000)
+#    define getpagesize() sysconf (_SC_PAGESIZE)
+#   endif
+#  endif
+/* This is for older VMS.  */
+#  if !defined getpagesize && defined __VMS
+#   ifdef __ALPHA
+#    define getpagesize() 8192
+#   else
+#    define getpagesize() 512
+#   endif
+#  endif
+/* This is for BeOS.  */
+#  if !defined getpagesize && @HAVE_OS_H@
+#   include <OS.h>
+#   if defined B_PAGE_SIZE
+#    define getpagesize() B_PAGE_SIZE
+#   endif
+#  endif
+/* This is for AmigaOS4.0.  */
+#  if !defined getpagesize && defined __amigaos4__
+#   define getpagesize() 2048
+#  endif
+/* This is for older Unix systems.  */
+#  if !defined getpagesize && @HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H@
+#   include <sys/param.h>
+#   ifdef EXEC_PAGESIZE
+#    define getpagesize() EXEC_PAGESIZE
+#   else
+#    ifdef NBPG
+#     ifndef CLSIZE
+#      define CLSIZE 1
+#     endif
+#     define getpagesize() (NBPG * CLSIZE)
+#    else
+#     ifdef NBPC
+#      define getpagesize() NBPC
+#     endif
+#    endif
+#   endif
+#  endif
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef getpagesize
+# define getpagesize() \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("getpagesize is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module getpagesize for portability"), \
+     getpagesize ())
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_GETUSERSHELL@
+# if !@HAVE_GETUSERSHELL@
+/* Return the next valid login shell on the system, or NULL when the end of
+   the list has been reached.  */
+extern char *getusershell (void);
+/* Rewind to pointer that is advanced at each getusershell() call.  */
+extern void setusershell (void);
+/* Free the pointer that is advanced at each getusershell() call and
+   associated resources.  */
+extern void endusershell (void);
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef getusershell
+# define getusershell() \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("getusershell is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module getusershell for portability"), \
+     getusershell ())
+# undef setusershell
+# define setusershell() \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("setusershell is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module getusershell for portability"), \
+     setusershell ())
+# undef endusershell
+# define endusershell() \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("endusershell is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module getusershell for portability"), \
+     endusershell ())
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_LCHOWN@
+# if @REPLACE_LCHOWN@
+/* Change the owner of FILE to UID (if UID is not -1) and the group of FILE
+   to GID (if GID is not -1).  Do not follow symbolic links.
+   Return 0 if successful, otherwise -1 and errno set.
+   See the POSIX:2001 specification
+   <http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/lchown.html>.  */
+#  define lchown rpl_lchown
+extern int lchown (char const *file, uid_t owner, gid_t group);
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef lchown
+# define lchown(f,u,g) \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("lchown is unportable to pre-POSIX.1-2001 " \
+                      "systems - use gnulib module lchown for portability"), \
+     lchown (f, u, g))
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_LSEEK@
+# if @REPLACE_LSEEK@
+/* Set the offset of FD relative to SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, or SEEK_END.
+   Return the new offset if successful, otherwise -1 and errno set.
+   See the POSIX:2001 specification
+   <http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/lseek.html>.  */
+#  define lseek rpl_lseek
+   extern off_t lseek (int fd, off_t offset, int whence);
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef lseek
+# define lseek(f,o,w) \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("lseek does not fail with ESPIPE on pipes on some " \
+                      "systems - use gnulib module lseek for portability"), \
+     lseek (f, o, w))
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_READLINK@
+/* Read the contents of the symbolic link FILE and place the first BUFSIZE
+   bytes of it into BUF.  Return the number of bytes placed into BUF if
+   successful, otherwise -1 and errno set.
+   See the POSIX:2001 specification
+   <http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/readlink.html>.  */
+# if !@HAVE_READLINK@
+#  include <stddef.h>
+extern int readlink (const char *file, char *buf, size_t bufsize);
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef readlink
+# define readlink(f,b,s) \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("readlink is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module readlink for portability"), \
+     readlink (f, b, s))
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_SLEEP@
+/* Pause the execution of the current thread for N seconds.
+   Returns the number of seconds left to sleep.
+   See the POSIX:2001 specification
+   <http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/sleep.html>.  */
+# if !@HAVE_SLEEP@
+extern unsigned int sleep (unsigned int n);
+# endif
+#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
+# undef sleep
+# define sleep(n) \
+    (GL_LINK_WARNING ("sleep is unportable - " \
+                      "use gnulib module sleep for portability"), \
+     sleep (n))
+#endif
+
+
+#if @GNULIB_WRITE@ && @REPLACE_WRITE@ && @GNULIB_UNISTD_H_SIGPIPE@
+/* Write up to COUNT bytes starting at BUF to file descriptor FD.
+   See the POSIX:2001 specification
+   <http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/write.html>.  */
+# undef write
+# define write rpl_write
+extern ssize_t write (int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);
+#endif
+
+
+#ifdef FCHDIR_REPLACEMENT
+/* gnulib internal function.  */
+extern void _gl_unregister_fd (int fd);
+#endif
+
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+
+#endif /* _GL_UNISTD_H */
+#endif /* _GL_UNISTD_H */
diff --git a/lib/write.c b/lib/write.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8476a4458
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/write.c
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+/* POSIX compatible write() function.
+   Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2008.
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+/* Specification.  */
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+/* Replace this function only if module 'sigpipe' is requested.  */
+#if GNULIB_SIGPIPE
+
+/* On native Windows platforms, SIGPIPE does not exist.  When write() is
+   called on a pipe with no readers, WriteFile() fails with error
+   GetLastError() = ERROR_NO_DATA, and write() in consequence fails with
+   error EINVAL.  */
+
+# if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && ! defined __CYGWIN__
+
+#  include <errno.h>
+#  include <signal.h>
+#  include <io.h>
+
+#  define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN  /* avoid including junk */
+#  include <windows.h>
+
+ssize_t
+rpl_write (int fd, const void *buf, size_t count)
+#undef write
+{
+  ssize_t ret = write (fd, buf, count);
+
+  if (ret < 0)
+    {
+      if (GetLastError () == ERROR_NO_DATA
+	  && GetFileType (_get_osfhandle (fd)) == FILE_TYPE_PIPE)
+	{
+	  /* Try to raise signal SIGPIPE.  */
+	  raise (SIGPIPE);
+	  /* If it is currently blocked or ignored, change errno from EINVAL
+	     to EPIPE.  */
+	  errno = EPIPE;
+	}
+    }
+  return ret;
+}
+
+# endif
+#endif
diff --git a/m4/gnulib-cache.m4 b/m4/gnulib-cache.m4
index 38943aeb1..9adbfa685 100644
--- a/m4/gnulib-cache.m4
+++ b/m4/gnulib-cache.m4
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 
 # Specification in the form of a command-line invocation:
-#   gnulib-tool --import --dir=. --lib=libgnu --source-base=lib --m4-base=m4 --doc-base=doc --tests-base=tests --aux-dir=build-aux --lgpl --libtool --macro-prefix=gl alloca autobuild count-one-bits extensions strcase strftime
+#   gnulib-tool --import --dir=. --lib=libgnu --source-base=lib --m4-base=m4 --doc-base=doc --tests-base=tests --aux-dir=build-aux --lgpl --libtool --macro-prefix=gl alloca autobuild count-one-bits extensions full-read full-write strcase strftime
 
 # Specification in the form of a few gnulib-tool.m4 macro invocations:
 gl_LOCAL_DIR([])
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ gl_MODULES([
   autobuild
   count-one-bits
   extensions
+  full-read
+  full-write
   strcase
   strftime
 ])
diff --git a/m4/gnulib-comp.m4 b/m4/gnulib-comp.m4
index c26545e0f..10c8156c1 100644
--- a/m4/gnulib-comp.m4
+++ b/m4/gnulib-comp.m4
@@ -49,13 +49,19 @@ AC_SUBST([LTALLOCA])
   gl_FUNC_ALLOCA
   gl_COUNT_ONE_BITS
   gl_INLINE
+  gl_SAFE_READ
+  gl_SAFE_WRITE
+  gt_TYPE_SSIZE_T
   AM_STDBOOL_H
   gl_STRCASE
   gl_FUNC_GNU_STRFTIME
   gl_HEADER_STRINGS_H
   gl_HEADER_TIME_H
   gl_TIME_R
+  gl_UNISTD_H
   gl_WCHAR_H
+  gl_FUNC_WRITE
+  gl_UNISTD_MODULE_INDICATOR([write])
   m4_ifval(gl_LIBSOURCES_LIST, [
     m4_syscmd([test ! -d ]m4_defn([gl_LIBSOURCES_DIR])[ ||
       for gl_file in ]gl_LIBSOURCES_LIST[ ; do
@@ -188,7 +194,14 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_FILE_LIST], [
   lib/alloca.c
   lib/alloca.in.h
   lib/count-one-bits.h
-  lib/dummy.c
+  lib/full-read.c
+  lib/full-read.h
+  lib/full-write.c
+  lib/full-write.h
+  lib/safe-read.c
+  lib/safe-read.h
+  lib/safe-write.c
+  lib/safe-write.h
   lib/stdbool.in.h
   lib/strcasecmp.c
   lib/strftime.c
@@ -197,8 +210,10 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_FILE_LIST], [
   lib/strncasecmp.c
   lib/time.in.h
   lib/time_r.c
+  lib/unistd.in.h
   lib/verify.h
   lib/wchar.in.h
+  lib/write.c
   m4/alloca.m4
   m4/autobuild.m4
   m4/count-one-bits.m4
@@ -207,6 +222,9 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_FILE_LIST], [
   m4/include_next.m4
   m4/inline.m4
   m4/mbstate_t.m4
+  m4/safe-read.m4
+  m4/safe-write.m4
+  m4/ssize_t.m4
   m4/stdbool.m4
   m4/strcase.m4
   m4/strftime.m4
@@ -214,6 +232,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_FILE_LIST], [
   m4/time_h.m4
   m4/time_r.m4
   m4/tm_gmtoff.m4
+  m4/unistd_h.m4
   m4/wchar.m4
   m4/wint_t.m4
+  m4/write.m4
 ])