John M Vinopal <banshee@gabriella.abattoir.com> writes:

> 
> It appears that fd will possible return a negative byte count upon error
> 
> I base this on fd.c: unmodified: line 579 of 1264 [45%]
> 
> [...]
> 
> It would appear that b_resid is not always initialized in fd.c (but in truth
> I don't know enough of the deeper kernel world to assert this).

Yes; that appears to be the case.  I'll check in a fix for it right
now.

> Do I possess head in butt?

Nope.  Looks like I did.  B-)