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On 12 Feb 2003, Rusty Lynch wrote:

> Attempting to cat a sysfs file that returns an error will result in an
> endless dump of garbage to the screen because the result of the specific
> show operation was being saved to a size_t (unsigned) and then later
> checked for a negative value.
> 
> Here is a trivial patch to fix the error.

Thanks, applied.

	-pat

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