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commit ae9ad6c69403252adf05410b89d0353ed774e7e2
parent 83d2dbb15d22550e88f86e1d51d69945fd52c136
Author: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>
Date:   Thu,  2 Apr 2009 16:53:42 -0300

added comment explaining why the 'feof' test when loading a file

Diffstat:
Mlauxlib.c | 5++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lauxlib.c b/lauxlib.c @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* -** $Id: lauxlib.c,v 1.184 2009/02/27 18:18:19 roberto Exp roberto $ +** $Id: lauxlib.c,v 1.185 2009/03/31 17:25:08 roberto Exp roberto $ ** Auxiliary functions for building Lua libraries ** See Copyright Notice in lua.h */ @@ -496,6 +496,9 @@ static const char *getF (lua_State *L, void *ud, size_t *size) { *size = 1; return "\n"; } + /* 'fread' can return > 0 *and* set the EOF flag. If next call to + 'getF' calls 'fread', terminal may still wait for user input. + The next check avoids this problem. */ if (feof(lf->f)) return NULL; *size = fread(lf->buff, 1, sizeof(lf->buff), lf->f); return (*size > 0) ? lf->buff : NULL;