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| -rw-r--r-- | src/tail.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c index 4581845d1..5d86da2d4 100644 --- a/src/tail.c +++ b/src/tail.c @@ -848,9 +848,7 @@ start_lines (const char *pretty_filename, int fd, uintmax_t n_lines, while (1) { char buffer[BUFSIZ]; - char *p = buffer; size_t bytes_read = safe_read (fd, buffer, BUFSIZ); - char *buffer_end = buffer + bytes_read; if (bytes_read == 0) /* EOF */ return -1; if (bytes_read == SAFE_READ_ERROR) /* error */ @@ -859,8 +857,11 @@ start_lines (const char *pretty_filename, int fd, uintmax_t n_lines, return 1; } + char *buffer_end = buffer + bytes_read; + *read_pos += bytes_read; + char *p = buffer; while ((p = memchr (p, '\n', buffer_end - p))) { ++p; |