The "read_or_die()" function would silently NOT die for a partial read, and since it was of type "void" it obviously couldn't even return the partial number of bytes read. IOW, it was totally broken. This hopefully fixes it up. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> --- I'm really quite fed up with the "cleanups" that were just too buggy for words. diff --git a/write_or_die.c b/write_or_die.c index 1224cac..4e8183e 100644 --- a/write_or_die.c +++ b/write_or_die.c @@ -4,16 +4,11 @@ int read_in_full(int fd, void *buf, size_t count) { char *p = buf; ssize_t total = 0; - ssize_t loaded = 0; while (count > 0) { - loaded = xread(fd, p, count); - if (loaded <= 0) { - if (total) - return total; - else - return loaded; - } + ssize_t loaded = xread(fd, p, count); + if (loaded <= 0) + return total ? total : loaded; count -= loaded; p += loaded; total += loaded; @@ -26,13 +21,12 @@ void read_or_die(int fd, void *buf, size_t count) { ssize_t loaded; - if (!count) - return; loaded = read_in_full(fd, buf, count); - if (loaded == 0) - die("unexpected end of file"); - else if (loaded < 0) - die("read error (%s)", strerror(errno)); + if (loaded != count) { + if (loaded < 0) + die("read error (%s)", strerror(errno)); + die("read error: end of file"); + } } int write_in_full(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html