From 6bb89e1622668f649a94239f4b07aea539b1dad8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:22:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] libbb: safe_write should not return EINTR

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
---
 libbb/safe_write.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libbb/safe_write.c b/libbb/safe_write.c
index 8f7628016..aad50f5e0 100644
--- a/libbb/safe_write.c
+++ b/libbb/safe_write.c
@@ -13,9 +13,17 @@ ssize_t FAST_FUNC safe_write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count)
 {
 	ssize_t n;
 
-	do {
+	for (;;) {
 		n = write(fd, buf, count);
-	} while (n < 0 && errno == EINTR);
+		if (n >= 0 || errno != EINTR)
+			break;
+		/* Some callers set errno=0, are upset when they see EINTR.
+		 * Returning EINTR is wrong since we retry write(),
+		 * the "error" was transient.
+		 */
+		errno = 0;
+		/* repeat the write() */
+	}
 
 	return n;
 }