From 7750d1ac2de4cb0089e1529e654be2bfea4baa0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 21:43:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (pipe_lines): Don't truncate return value from safe_read.

---
 src/tail.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index f4299c9b8f..019130362e 100644
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -536,7 +536,8 @@ pipe_lines (const char *pretty_filename, int fd, uintmax_t n_lines,
   /* Input is always read into a fresh buffer.  */
   while (1)
     {
-      n_read = tmp->nbytes = safe_read (fd, tmp->buffer, BUFSIZ);
+      n_read = safe_read (fd, tmp->buffer, BUFSIZ);
+      tmp->nbytes = n_read;
       if (n_read == 0 || n_read == SAFE_READ_ERROR)
 	break;
       *read_pos += n_read;
-- 
2.47.2