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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2002-02-01 09:12:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2002-02-01 09:12:50 +0000 |
| commit | 31cb36e88f2ab50493d3badd12c021746d2b4e2c (patch) | |
| tree | a004da3d85542358208ae892479c94c273bcd2ab | |
| parent | 06506ceb4fe9045c7172b133e94dc158a4fa65d6 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-31cb36e88f2ab50493d3badd12c021746d2b4e2c.tar.xz | |
(start_lines): Handle the case in which bytes_read is zero.
| -rw-r--r-- | src/tail.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c index 684cf1397..f94a075cf 100644 --- a/src/tail.c +++ b/src/tail.c @@ -756,6 +756,9 @@ start_lines (const char *pretty_filename, int fd, long int n_lines) int bytes_read = 0; int bytes_to_skip = 0; + if (n_lines == 0) + return 0; + while (n_lines && (bytes_read = safe_read (fd, buffer, BUFSIZ)) > 0) { bytes_to_skip = 0; |