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Diffstat (limited to 'merge.c')
-rw-r--r-- | merge.c | 29 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -150,9 +150,16 @@ is_earlier(struct wtap_nstime *l, struct wtap_nstime *r) { /* * Read the next packet, in chronological order, from the set of files - * to be merged. Return a pointer to the merge_in_file_t for the file - * from which the packet was read on success, or NULL on EOF or error. - * On EOF, *err is 0; on an error, it's an error code. + * to be merged. + * + * On success, set *err to 0 and return a pointer to the merge_in_file_t + * for the file from which the packet was read. + * + * On a read error, set *err to the error and return a pointer to the + * merge_in_file_t for the file on which we got an error. + * + * On an EOF (meaning all the files are at EOF), set *err to 0 and return + * NULL. */ merge_in_file_t * merge_read_packet(int in_file_count, merge_in_file_t in_files[], @@ -211,9 +218,16 @@ merge_read_packet(int in_file_count, merge_in_file_t in_files[], /* * Read the next packet, in file sequence order, from the set of files - * to be merged. Return a pointer to the merge_in_file_t for the file - * from which the packet was read on success, or NULL on EOF or error. - * On EOF, *err is 0; on an error, it's an error code. + * to be merged. + * + * On success, set *err to 0 and return a pointer to the merge_in_file_t + * for the file from which the packet was read. + * + * On a read error, set *err to the error and return a pointer to the + * merge_in_file_t for the file on which we got an error. + * + * On an EOF (meaning all the files are at EOF), set *err to 0 and return + * NULL. */ merge_in_file_t * merge_append_read_packet(int in_file_count, merge_in_file_t in_files[], @@ -232,7 +246,7 @@ merge_append_read_packet(int in_file_count, merge_in_file_t in_files[], if (*err != 0) { /* Read error - quit immediately. */ in_files[i].state = GOT_ERROR; - return NULL; + return &in_files[i]; } /* EOF - flag this file as being at EOF, and try the next one. */ in_files[i].state = AT_EOF; @@ -244,5 +258,6 @@ merge_append_read_packet(int in_file_count, merge_in_file_t in_files[], } /* Return the ordinal of the file from which the packet was read. */ + *err = 0; return &in_files[i]; } |