On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:20:16PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > diff --git a/builtin/mailsplit.c b/builtin/mailsplit.c > index 30681681c13..c0d88f97512 100644 > --- a/builtin/mailsplit.c > +++ b/builtin/mailsplit.c > @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static int split_mbox(const char *file, const char *dir, int allow_bare, > > do { > peek = fgetc(f); > - } while (isspace(peek)); > + } while (peek >= 0 && isspace(peek)); > ungetc(peek, f); Are we guaranteed that EOF is a negative number? Also, what is the behavior of ungetc when we pass it EOF? It looks like POSIX does what we want (pushing EOF is a noop, and the stream retains its feof() status), but I don't know if there are other implementations to worry about. Perhaps: /* soak up whitespace */ while ((peek = fgetc(f)) != EOF) { if (!isspace(peek)) { ungetc(peek, f); break; } } would be more portable. -Peff