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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: bin/678: head(1) ignore EOF
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>Number:         678
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       head(1) ignore EOF
>Confidential:   yes
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Aug 12 16:00:01 PDT 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Wolfram Schneider
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.0-ALPHA i386
>Environment:


>Description:

	head(1) ignore EOF

>How-To-Repeat:

	$ echo "one line" > /tmp/foo
	$ head -100000000000 /tmp/foo
	^C


>Fix:
	
--- 1.1	1995/08/12 22:14:38
+++ head.c	1995/08/12 22:18:58
@@ -113,12 +113,11 @@
 {
 	register int ch;
 
-	while (cnt--)
-		while ((ch = getc(fp)) != EOF) {
+	while ((ch = getc(fp)) != EOF && cnt) {
 			if (putchar(ch) == EOF)
 				err(1, "stdout: %s", strerror(errno));
 			if (ch == '\n')
-				break;
+			cnt--;
 		}
 }
 


>Audit-Trail:
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