* Fix the garbage collector.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index 6a032a3f10..60b86b162c 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <dirent.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
 
 #include "util.hh"
 
@@ -192,6 +193,16 @@ Path createTempDir()
 }
 
 
+void writeStringToFile(const Path & path, const string & s)
+{
+    AutoCloseFD fd = open(path.c_str(),
+        O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_WRONLY, 0666);
+    if (fd == -1)
+        throw SysError(format("creating file `%1%'") % path);
+    writeFull(fd, (unsigned char *) s.c_str(), s.size());
+}
+
+
 Verbosity verbosity = lvlError;
 
 static int nestingLevel = 0;