(readline): Leave room for an extra byte

after the newline; comm needs this for memcoll.

diff --git a/lib/linebuffer.c b/lib/linebuffer.c
index b7e875b..d129d30 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/linebuffer.c
+++ b/lib/linebuffer.c
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ initbuffer (struct linebuffer *linebuffer)
 
 /* Read an arbitrarily long line of text from STREAM into LINEBUFFER.
    Keep the newline; append a newline if it's the last line of a file
-   that ends in a non-newline character.  Do not null terminate.
+   that ends in a non-newline character.  Do not null terminate,
+   but leave room for an extra byte after the newline.
    Return LINEBUFFER, except at end of file return 0.  */
 
 struct linebuffer *
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ readline (struct linebuffer *linebuffer, FILE *stream)
   int c;
   char *buffer = linebuffer->buffer;
   char *p = linebuffer->buffer;
-  char *end = buffer + linebuffer->size; /* Sentinel. */
+  char *end = buffer + linebuffer->size - 1; /* Sentinel. */
 
   if (feof (stream) || ferror (stream))
     return 0;
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ readline (struct linebuffer *linebuffer, FILE *stream)
          buffer = (char *) xrealloc (buffer, linebuffer->size);
          p = p - linebuffer->buffer + buffer;
          linebuffer->buffer = buffer;
-         end = buffer + linebuffer->size;
+         end = buffer + linebuffer->size - 1;
        }
       *p++ = c;
     }