From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 02:59:44 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (tail): Explicitly cast to long the N_UNITS argumennt in
X-Git-Tag: textutils-1_12_1~60
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba34723398d2a811f9117609bdf83e71028eae14;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(tail): Explicitly cast to long the N_UNITS argumennt in
call to tail_lines.  Otherwise, NetBSD lost because N_UNITS (of type
off_t, a 64-bit type on NetBSD) wasn't converted to the target type,
long.  Reported by Dan Hagerty (hag@gnu.ai.it.edu).
---

diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index c4dc378c5c..448c355714 100644
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ tail (filename, fd, n_units)
      off_t n_units;
 {
   if (count_lines)
-    return tail_lines (filename, fd, n_units);
+    return tail_lines (filename, fd, (long) n_units);
   else
     return tail_bytes (filename, fd, n_units);
 }