*/
ssize_t writeall(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);
+/**
+ * Like writeall, but instead of retrying upon EAGAIN (returned when a write
+ * would block), the function stops and returns the total number of bytes
+ * written so far.
+ *
+ */
+ssize_t writeall_nonblock(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);
+
/**
* Safe-wrapper around writeall which exits if it returns -1 (meaning that
* write failed)
* Returns the newly-allocated i3String.
*
*/
-i3String *i3string_from_utf8_with_length(const char *from_utf8, size_t num_bytes);
+i3String *i3string_from_utf8_with_length(const char *from_utf8, ssize_t num_bytes);
/**
* Build an i3String from an UTF-8 encoded string in Pango markup with fixed