Merge branch 'fc/macos-x-clipped-write'

Mac OS X does not like to write(2) more than INT_MAX number of
bytes.

* fc/macos-x-clipped-write:
  compate/clipped-write.c: large write(2) fails on Mac OS X/XNU

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/compat/clipped-write.c b/compat/clipped-write.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b8f98ff77f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compat/clipped-write.c
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#include "../git-compat-util.h"
+#undef write
+
+/*
+ * Version of write that will write at most INT_MAX bytes.
+ * Workaround a xnu bug on Mac OS X
+ */
+ssize_t clipped_write(int fildes, const void *buf, size_t nbyte)
+{
+	if (nbyte > INT_MAX)
+		nbyte = INT_MAX;
+	return write(fildes, buf, nbyte);
+}