head_bytes (const char *filename, int fd, uintmax_t bytes_to_write)
{
char buffer[BUFSIZE];
- int bytes_read;
size_t bytes_to_read = BUFSIZE;
/* Need BINARY I/O for the byte counts to be accurate. */
while (bytes_to_write)
{
+ size_t bytes_read;
if (bytes_to_write < bytes_to_read)
bytes_to_read = bytes_to_write;
bytes_read = safe_read (fd, buffer, bytes_to_read);
- if (bytes_read < 0)
+ if (bytes_read == SAFE_READ_ERROR)
{
error (0, errno, "%s", filename);
return 1;
while (lines_to_write)
{
- int bytes_read = safe_read (fd, buffer, BUFSIZE);
- int bytes_to_write = 0;
+ size_t bytes_read = safe_read (fd, buffer, BUFSIZE);
+ size_t bytes_to_write = 0;
- if (bytes_read < 0)
+ if (bytes_read == SAFE_READ_ERROR)
{
error (0, errno, "%s", filename);
return 1;
while (bytes_to_write < bytes_read)
if (buffer[bytes_to_write++] == '\n' && --lines_to_write == 0)
{
+ off_t n_bytes_past_EOL = bytes_read - bytes_to_write;
/* If we have read more data than that on the specified number
of lines, try to seek back to the position we would have
gotten to had we been reading one byte at a time. */
- if (lseek (fd, bytes_to_write - bytes_read, SEEK_CUR) < 0)
+ if (lseek (fd, -n_bytes_past_EOL, SEEK_CUR) < 0)
{
int e = errno;
struct stat st;