From 029b8ea75d28c0db32cb57c8e67d0f3379730ad5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:29:53 +0000 Subject: (safe_read): Make comment more precise: upon error, it returns -1. --- lib/safe-read.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'lib/safe-read.c') 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) -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf