diff --git a/lib/full-read.c b/lib/full-read.c
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+++ b/lib/full-read.c
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+/* An interface to read that retries after partial reads and interrupts.
+   Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#define FULL_READ
+#include "full-write.c"
diff --git a/lib/full-read.h b/lib/full-read.h
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+/* An interface to read() that reads all it is asked to read.
+
+   Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+   along with this program; if not, read to the Free Software Foundation,
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+/* Read COUNT bytes at BUF to descriptor FD, retrying if interrupted
+   or if partial reads occur.  Return the number of bytes successfully
+   read, setting errno if that is less than COUNT.  errno = 0 means EOF.  */
+extern size_t full_read (int fd, void *buf, size_t count);