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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2002-09-25 08:29:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2002-09-25 08:29:53 +0000 |
| commit | 029b8ea75d28c0db32cb57c8e67d0f3379730ad5 (patch) | |
| tree | d10113d9a2bc35e1444192db758fef278be6fcd6 | |
| parent | 34ba862f93c6689666a9143d0cf71c42005b908e (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-029b8ea75d28c0db32cb57c8e67d0f3379730ad5.tar.xz | |
(safe_read): Make comment more precise: upon error, it returns -1.
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/safe-read.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/safe-read.c b/lib/safe-read.c index e404586c7..adfd86f5d 100644 --- a/lib/safe-read.c +++ b/lib/safe-read.c @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* safe-read.c -- an interface to read that retries after interrupts - Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1998, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ extern int errno; #include "safe-read.h" /* Read LEN bytes at PTR from descriptor DESC, retrying if interrupted. - Return the actual number of bytes read, zero for EOF, or negative - for an error. */ + Return the actual number of bytes read, zero for EOF, or -1 upon error. */ ssize_t safe_read (int desc, void *ptr, size_t len) |