[PATCH 01/26] lib: fwts_acpid: fix checking of return from read()

Colin King colin.king at canonical.com
Sun Oct 14 20:31:53 UTC 2012


From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>

The return from a read() is of type ssize_t and not size_t and
were are currently checking for n < 0 which will never happen if
n is a size_t type.  So make it ssize_t.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
---
 src/lib/src/fwts_acpid.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/src/fwts_acpid.c b/src/lib/src/fwts_acpid.c
index 3107052..c7e5c43 100644
--- a/src/lib/src/fwts_acpid.c
+++ b/src/lib/src/fwts_acpid.c
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ char *fwts_acpi_event_read(const int fd, size_t *length, const int timeout)
 	fd_set rfds;
 
 	int ret;
-	size_t n;
+	ssize_t n;
 	size_t size = 0;
 	*length = 0;
 
-- 
1.7.10.4




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