From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 09:21:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (tail_bytes): Change type of bytes_remaining to off_t
X-Git-Tag: v4.5.2~71
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=475574011db63b2a80091e936d922198114184ab;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(tail_bytes): Change type of bytes_remaining to off_t
to avoid overflow.  Reported by Hans Lermen.
---

diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index d9b1b2c74e..0d5ea589bb 100644
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@ tail_bytes (const char *pretty_filename, int fd, off_t n_bytes)
       if (S_ISREG (stats.st_mode))
 	{
 	  off_t current_pos, end_pos;
-	  size_t bytes_remaining;
+	  off_t bytes_remaining;
 
 	  if ((current_pos = lseek (fd, (off_t) 0, SEEK_CUR)) != -1
 	      && (end_pos = lseek (fd, (off_t) 0, SEEK_END)) != -1)