From 4bdaed5ff442abc37fa01e1960ac4c26f416fb36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:08:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (xwrite): Remove assertion that size_t N >= 0.

---
 src/tail.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index 50774dffd3..4973ef64bd 100644
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -323,7 +323,6 @@ static void
 xwrite (int fd, char *const buffer, size_t n_bytes)
 {
   assert (fd == STDOUT_FILENO);
-  assert (n_bytes >= 0);
   if (n_bytes > 0 && fwrite (buffer, 1, n_bytes, stdout) == 0)
     error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("write error"));
 }
-- 
2.47.3