bin/152131: Useless code in script.c (part 1)

Ronald F.Guilmette rfg at tristatelogic.com
Thu Nov 11 06:00:23 UTC 2010


>Number:         152131
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Useless code in script.c (part 1)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 11 06:00:22 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ronald F. Guilmette
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Infinite Monkeys & Co.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD segfault.tristatelogic.com 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Aug 5 02:38:40 PDT 2008 root at segfault.monkeys.com:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/rfg20080805 i386

>Description:
	script.c does pointless zero-length writes to its child (shell)
	process.  Also, an EOF on stdin should probably terminate everything.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Look at the code.
>Fix:

*** script.c.orig	2004-02-15 09:30:13.000000000 -0800
--- script.c	2010-11-10 21:49:21.000000000 -0800
***************
*** 179,186 ****
  		if (n > 0 && FD_ISSET(STDIN_FILENO, &rfd)) {
  			cc = read(STDIN_FILENO, ibuf, BUFSIZ);
! 			if (cc < 0)
  				break;
- 			if (cc == 0)
- 				(void)write(master, ibuf, 0);
  			if (cc > 0) {
  				(void)write(master, ibuf, cc);
--- 179,184 ----
  		if (n > 0 && FD_ISSET(STDIN_FILENO, &rfd)) {
  			cc = read(STDIN_FILENO, ibuf, BUFSIZ);
! 			if (cc <= 0)
  				break;
  			if (cc > 0) {
  				(void)write(master, ibuf, cc);
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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