Let's read one byte more than the file size we read from stat() on the
first fread() invocation. That way, the first read() will already be
short and indicate eof to fread().
This is a minor optimization, and replaces #3908.
if (st.st_size > READ_FULL_BYTES_MAX)
return -E2BIG;
- /* Start with the right file size, but be prepared for
- * files from /proc which generally report a file size
- * of 0 */
+ /* Start with the right file size, but be prepared for files from /proc which generally report a file
+ * size of 0. Note that we increase the size to read here by one, so that the first read attempt
+ * already makes us notice the EOF. */
if (st.st_size > 0)
- n = st.st_size;
+ n = st.st_size + 1;
}
l = 0;