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-rw-r--r--sys/src/cmd/awk/run.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sys/src/cmd/awk/run.c b/sys/src/cmd/awk/run.c
index e288f881f..d3244de1c 100644
--- a/sys/src/cmd/awk/run.c
+++ b/sys/src/cmd/awk/run.c
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ int
system(const char *s)
{
char status[512], *statfld[5];
- int w, pid;
+ int n, pid;
if(!s)
return 1; /* a command interpreter is available */
@@ -76,8 +76,9 @@ system(const char *s)
return -1;
}
for(;;) {
- w = await(status, sizeof(status) - 1);
- if(w == -1)
+ n = await(status, sizeof(status) - 1);
+ status[n] = '\0';
+ if(n == -1)
return -1;
tokenize(status, statfld, nelem(statfld));
if(strtol(statfld[0], nil, 0) == pid)