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Commit 437c3e77 authored by Iustin Pop's avatar Iustin Pop
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Fix potential data-loss in utils.WriteFile


os.write can do incomplete writes, as long as at least some bytes have
been written (like write(2)):

>>> os.write(fd, " " * 1300)
1300
>>> os.write(fd, " " * 1300)
1300
>>> os.write(fd, " " * 1300)
1300
>>> os.write(fd, " " * 1300)
980
>>> os.write(fd, " " * 1300)
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

Note that incomplete write that only wrote 980 bytes, before the
exception.

To workaround this, we simply iterate until all data is
written. Unittests could be written by using a parameter instead of
hardcoding os.write and checking for incomplete writes.

Signed-off-by: default avatarIustin Pop <iustin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>
parent 2db04578
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