From 40d9eb14dfb842c51e9f86818b43ae7711e1a5d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 15:58:34 +0000
Subject: * Fix the garbage collector.

---
 src/libutil/util.cc | 11 +++++++++++
 src/libutil/util.hh |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/libutil')

diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index 6a032a3f10f3..60b86b162c9c 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;
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.hh b/src/libutil/util.hh
index d0e7b3ada873..cca93cdc737a 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/util.hh
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ void makePathReadOnly(const Path & path);
 /* Create a temporary directory. */
 Path createTempDir();
 
+/* Create a file and write the given text to it.  The file is written
+   in binary mode (i.e., no end-of-line conversions).  The path should
+   not already exist. */
+void writeStringToFile(const Path & path, const string & s);
+
 
 /* Messages. */
 
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