remove unused variable ret as reported by apgo in Bug 350 and touchup syntax along the way

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/coreutils/tail.c b/coreutils/tail.c
index d49539916..f330ab1a1 100644
--- a/coreutils/tail.c
+++ b/coreutils/tail.c
@@ -81,17 +81,14 @@ static ssize_t tail_read(int fd, char *buf, size_t count)
         ssize_t r;
         off_t current,end;
         struct stat sbuf;
-        int ret;
 
-        end = current = lseek (fd, 0, SEEK_CUR);
-        if (!fstat(fd, &sbuf)){
-            end = sbuf.st_size;
-        }
-        if ( end < current) {
+        end = current = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR);
+        if (!fstat(fd, &sbuf))
+                end = sbuf.st_size;
+        if (end < current)
                 lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
-        } else {
+        else
                 lseek(fd, current, SEEK_SET);
-        }
         if ((r = safe_read(fd, buf, count)) < 0) {
                 bb_perror_msg("read");
                 status = EXIT_FAILURE;