From: Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo <cgoesc2@wgu.edu>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:35:35 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: islocal: improve coding style
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6d5ff86c68938f4ea0011c11676da967c153194e;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

islocal: improve coding style

This patch improves the coding style in various places for
better readability, semantic clarity and alignment with
common best practices.

Changes include the transposition of a variable assignment
in a conditional statement to its own line for better
readability, the removal of defensive programming techniques
like 'yoda conditions' where constants are specified on the
left of variables, which reduce natural readability and are
not necessary as erroneous variable assignments will be
indicated by the compiler anyways. Lastly, the 'u' suffix is
extraneous for variable assignments to 'match' as it is a size_t.

Signed-off-by: Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo <cgoesc2@wgu.edu>
---

diff --git a/login-utils/islocal.c b/login-utils/islocal.c
index 7d5541fd1..1adddd7cd 100644
--- a/login-utils/islocal.c
+++ b/login-utils/islocal.c
@@ -34,22 +34,23 @@ static int is_local_in_file(const char *user, const char *filename)
 	int chin, skip;
 	FILE *f;
 
-	if (NULL == (f = fopen(filename, "r")))
+	f = fopen(filename, "r");
+	if (!f)
 		return -1;
 
-	match = 0u;
+	match = 0;
 	skip = 0;
 	while ((chin = fgetc(f)) != EOF) {
 		if (skip) {
 			/* Looking for the start of the next line. */
-			if ('\n' == chin) {
+			if (chin == '\n') {
 				/* Start matching username at the next char. */
 				skip = 0;
-				match = 0u;
+				match = 0;
 			}
 		} else {
-			if (':' == chin) {
-				if (0 == user[match]) {
+			if (chin == ':') {
+				if (user[match] == '\0') {
 					/* Success. */
 					local = 1;
 					/* next line has no test coverage,
@@ -61,11 +62,11 @@ static int is_local_in_file(const char *user, const char *filename)
 				 * is the wrong user.  Skip to the
 				 * next line.  */
 				skip = 1;
-			} else if ('\n' == chin) {
+			} else if (chin == '\n') {
 				/* This line contains no colon; it's
 				 * malformed.  No skip since we are already
 				 * at the start of the next line.  */
-				match = 0u;
+				match = 0U;
 			} else if (chin != user[match]) {
 				/* username does not match. */
 				skip = 1;
@@ -82,7 +83,8 @@ int is_local(const char *user)
 {
 	int rv;
 
-	if ((rv = is_local_in_file(user, _PATH_PASSWD)) < 0)
+	rv = is_local_in_file(user, _PATH_PASSWD);
+	if (rv < 0)
 		err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("cannot open %s"), _PATH_PASSWD);
 	return rv;
 }