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From: "Gaël PORTAY" <gael.portay@savoirfairelinux.com>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: "Gaël PORTAY" <gael.portay@savoirfairelinux.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] readline_simple: return -1 if getc fails
Date: Wed,  9 Aug 2017 00:13:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170809041320.28874-1-gael.portay@savoirfairelinux.com> (raw)

Dear maintainers,

I came accross this issue when I was trying to add support for a new MIPS
board.

The getc() function from console_simple.c returns -EINVAL when no console is
registered.

It causes readline_simple to print a non-printable character (-EINVAL in this
case). Furthermore, it causes an infinite loop: readline never returns.

	barebox:/ ���(...)���

With this patch, the error is no more explicit but the readline function stops
to print a dummy character and returns to shell.

	barebox:/ <INTERRUPT>
	barebox:/ <INTERRUPT>
	barebox:/ <INTERRUPT>
	(...)
	barebox:/ <INTERRUPT>
	barebox:/ <INTERRUPT>
	barebox:/ <INTERRUPT>

The second patch is a simple cleanup of the in-file documentation.

Changes since v1:
 - change c variable type from char in int
 - set *p to NUL before returning -1 when getchar returns an error
 - update function documentation

Regards,
Gaël PORTAY (2):
  readline_simple: return -1 if getc fails
  readline_simple: remove obsolete documentation

 lib/readline_simple.c | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

-- 
2.13.2


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             reply	other threads:[~2017-08-09  4:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-09  4:13 Gaël PORTAY [this message]
2017-08-09  4:13 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Gaël PORTAY
2017-08-09  4:13 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] readline_simple: remove obsolete documentation Gaël PORTAY
2017-08-09  6:05 ` [PATCH 0/2] readline_simple: return -1 if getc fails Oleksij Rempel
2017-08-09 18:58   ` Gaël PORTAY
2017-08-09 19:41     ` Oleksij Rempel
2017-08-10  5:51     ` Antony Pavlov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-08-07 22:10 Gaël PORTAY

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