rodionovd/machobot

# common/fileutils.py - machobot
# Copyright (c) 2015 Dmitry Rodionov
# https://github.com/rodionovd/machobot
#
# This software may be modified and distributed under the terms
# of the MIT license.  See the LICENSE file for details.

from macholib.MachO import MachO

def save_macho(macho, path):
    """ Serializes the provided Mach-O object to a file at the given path. """
    # TODO: I suppose this way we can corrupt an original file.
    #       Should I came up with something better?
    
    # We use 'r+' mode here because MachO.write() doesn't rewrite a whole
    # file, but just a header of it; so we must not truncate the thing.
    # There're also lots of fseek(), so 'a[+]' modes don't belong here too.
    f = open(path, "r+")
    return macho.write(f)