remove unused variable ret as reported by apgo in Bug 350 and touchup syntax along...

diff --git a/coreutils/tail.c b/coreutils/tail.c
index d495399..f330ab1 100644 (file)
--- a/coreutils/tail.c
+++ b/coreutils/tail.c
@@ -81,17 +81,14 @@ static ssize_t tail_read(int fd, char *buf, size_t count)
        ssize_t r;
        off_t current,end;
        struct stat sbuf;
-       int ret;
 
-       end = current = lseek (fd, 0, SEEK_CUR);
-       if (!fstat(fd, &sbuf)){
-           end = sbuf.st_size;
-       }
-       if ( end < current) {
+       end = current = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR);
+       if (!fstat(fd, &sbuf))
+               end = sbuf.st_size;
+       if (end < current)
                lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
-       } else {
+       else
                lseek(fd, current, SEEK_SET);
-       }
        if ((r = safe_read(fd, buf, count)) < 0) {
                bb_perror_msg("read");
                status = EXIT_FAILURE;