svn commit: r303586 - head/bin/sh

Ian Lepore ian at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 1 16:40:36 UTC 2016


On Sun, 2016-07-31 at 13:43 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 01:11:34PM +0000, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> > New Revision: 303586
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/303586
> > 
> > Log:
> >   sh: Fix a clang warning.
> >   
> >   Submitted by:	bdrewery
> > 
> > Modified:
> >   head/bin/sh/expand.c
> > 
> > Modified: head/bin/sh/expand.c
> > ===================================================================
> > ===========
> > --- head/bin/sh/expand.c	Sun Jul 31 12:59:10 2016	(r3
> > 03585)
> > +++ head/bin/sh/expand.c	Sun Jul 31 13:11:34 2016	(r3
> > 03586)
> > @@ -473,7 +473,8 @@ expbackq(union node *cmd, int quoted, in
> >  		if (--in.nleft < 0) {
> >  			if (in.fd < 0)
> >  				break;
> > -			while ((i = read(in.fd, buf, sizeof buf))
> > < 0 && errno == EINTR);
> > +			while ((i = read(in.fd, buf, sizeof buf))
> > < 0 && errno == EINTR)
> > +				;
> 
> `continue;' would be even better; some tools might barf at stray
> semicolon.
> 
> ./danfe
> 

I strongly agree that the right way to do an empty loop is to use
"continue;" on a line by itself.  Unfortunately, what style(9) suggests
by way of example is a single semicolon on a line by itself with a
comment of "/* nothing */" to the right on the same line.  Ick.

-- Ian


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