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-rw-r--r--xattr/lib_build.py6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/xattr/lib_build.py b/xattr/lib_build.py
index 0c13ef3..a687cea 100644
--- a/xattr/lib_build.py
+++ b/xattr/lib_build.py
@@ -52,15 +52,13 @@ C_SRC = """
#define XATTR_REPLACE 0x2
/* Converts a freebsd format attribute list into a NULL terminated list.
- * While the man page on extattr_list_file says it is NULL terminated,
- * it is actually the first byte that is the length of the
- * following attribute.
+ * The first byte is the length of the following attribute.
*/
static void convert_bsd_list(char *namebuf, size_t size)
{
size_t offset = 0;
while(offset < size) {
- int length = (int) namebuf[offset];
+ int length = (int) (unsigned char)namebuf[offset];
memmove(namebuf+offset, namebuf+offset+1, length);
namebuf[offset+length] = '\\0';
offset += length+1;