From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:29:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (safe_read): Make comment more precise: upon error, it returns -1.
X-Git-Tag: v4.5.2~91
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=029b8ea75d28c0db32cb57c8e67d0f3379730ad5;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(safe_read): Make comment more precise: upon error, it returns -1.
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diff --git a/lib/safe-read.c b/lib/safe-read.c
index e404586c75..adfd86f5db 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)