vcs-svn: make buffer_read_binary API more convenient

buffer_read_binary is a thin wrapper around fread, but its signature
is wrong:

 - fread can fill an arbitrary in-memory buffer.  buffer_read_binary
   is limited to buffers whose size is representable by a 32-bit
   integer.
 - The result from fread is the number of bytes actually read.
   buffer_read_binary only reports the number of bytes read by
   incrementing sb->len by that amount and returns void.

Fix both: let buffer_read_binary accept a size_t instead of uint32_t
for the number of bytes to read and as a convenience return the number
of bytes actually read.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/vcs-svn/line_buffer.h b/vcs-svn/line_buffer.h
index d0b22dda76..8901f214ba 100644
--- a/vcs-svn/line_buffer.h
+++ b/vcs-svn/line_buffer.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ long buffer_tmpfile_prepare_to_read(struct line_buffer *buf);
 int buffer_ferror(struct line_buffer *buf);
 char *buffer_read_line(struct line_buffer *buf);
 int buffer_read_char(struct line_buffer *buf);
-void buffer_read_binary(struct line_buffer *buf, struct strbuf *sb, uint32_t len);
+size_t buffer_read_binary(struct line_buffer *buf, struct strbuf *sb, size_t len);
 /* Returns number of bytes read (not necessarily written). */
 off_t buffer_copy_bytes(struct line_buffer *buf, off_t len);
 off_t buffer_skip_bytes(struct line_buffer *buf, off_t len);