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-rw-r--r--ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getdents.c5
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 93fea9a60d..c963092e73 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+1999-04-07  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
+
+	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getdents.c (__getdirentries): Return
+	directly if getdents returns with error set.
+
 1999-04-05  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
 
 	* locale/langinfo.h (THOUSEP): Rename second occurence of
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getdents.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getdents.c
index b59acc0e1c..e0180dfa2e 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getdents.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getdents.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (C) 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
 
    The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ __getdirentries (int fd, char *buf, size_t nbytes, off_t *basep)
 
   retval = INLINE_SYSCALL (getdents, 3, fd, (char *) kdp, red_nbytes);
 
+  if (retval == -1)
+    return -1;
+  
   while ((char *) kdp < (char *) skdp + retval)
     {
       const size_t alignment = __alignof__ (struct dirent);