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fork of suckless's simple terminal
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commit e52319cc7d153e4f59b38c4fb4c0556e118d4775
parent 21e0d6e8b8d20903494386e7e6f43201b3761154
Author: Roberto E. Vargas Caballero <k0ga@shike2.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:25:46 +0200

ttyread: test for EOF while reading tty

When a read operation returns 0 then it means that we arrived to the end of the
file, and new reads will return 0 unless you do some other operation such as
lseek(). This case happens with USB-232 adapters when they are unplugged.

Diffstat:
Mst.c | 25++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/st.c b/st.c
@@ -823,17 +823,24 @@ ttyread(void)
     int ret;
 
     /* append read bytes to unprocessed bytes */
-    if ((ret = read(cmdfd, buf+buflen, LEN(buf)-buflen)) < 0)
-        die("couldn't read from shell: %s\n", strerror(errno));
-    buflen += ret;
+    ret = read(cmdfd, buf+buflen, LEN(buf)-buflen);
 
-    written = twrite(buf, buflen, 0);
-    buflen -= written;
-    /* keep any uncomplete utf8 char for the next call */
-    if (buflen > 0)
-        memmove(buf, buf + written, buflen);
+    switch (ret) {
+    case 0:
+        fputs("Found EOF in input\n", stderr);
+        exit(0);
+    case -1:
+        die("couldn't read from shell: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+    default:
+        buflen += ret;
+        written = twrite(buf, buflen, 0);
+        buflen -= written;
+        /* keep any uncomplete utf8 char for the next call */
+        if (buflen > 0)
+            memmove(buf, buf + written, buflen);
+        return ret;
 
-    return ret;
+    }
 }
 
 void