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authorJames Youngman <jay@gnu.org>2008-05-14 09:51:40 +0100
committerKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>2008-06-16 11:54:28 +0200
commit115e6f00b81a3a30d91294250419ef006d102258 (patch)
treec60f74443fa459995a841c02231f65f0ce73ef4a /text-utils
parentfba4e21fa000748112d39c8e9fc266f1cbe9a08f (diff)
downloadutil-linux-old-115e6f00b81a3a30d91294250419ef006d102258.tar.gz
more: minor fixes to magic()
Read the magic bytes into signed chars instead of vanilla chars in order to ensure consistent results even on systems whose char type has no sign. Eliminate spurious parentheses in return statements. Correct grammatical errors in comments. Signed-off-by: James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'text-utils')
-rw-r--r--text-utils/more.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/text-utils/more.c b/text-utils/more.c
index dc38ff2a..f251b279 100644
--- a/text-utils/more.c
+++ b/text-utils/more.c
@@ -531,18 +531,18 @@ checkf (fs, clearfirst)
/*
* magic --
* check for file magic numbers. This code would best be shared with
- * the file(1) program or, perhaps, more should not try and be so smart?
+ * the file(1) program or, perhaps, more should not try to be so smart.
*/
static int
magic(f, fs)
FILE *f;
char *fs;
{
- char twobytes[2];
+ signed char twobytes[2];
/* don't try to look ahead if the input is unseekable */
if (fseek(f, 0L, SEEK_SET))
- return(0);
+ return 0;
if (fread(twobytes, 2, 1, f) == 1) {
switch(twobytes[0] + (twobytes[1]<<8)) {
@@ -555,11 +555,11 @@ magic(f, fs)
case 0x457f: /* simple ELF detection */
printf(_("\n******** %s: Not a text file ********\n\n"), fs);
(void)fclose(f);
- return(1);
+ return 1;
}
}
(void)fseek(f, 0L, SEEK_SET); /* rewind() not necessary */
- return(0);
+ return 0;
}
/*