According to bug #63, crond is unhappy with crontab lines that don't end in a

newline, or lines that have trailing spaces.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/libbb/trim.c b/libbb/trim.c
index 38aa28231..0dca6678e 100644
--- a/libbb/trim.c
+++ b/libbb/trim.c
@@ -29,14 +29,18 @@
 
 void trim(char *s)
 {
-        int len = strlen(s);
+        size_t len = strlen(s);
+        size_t lws;
 
         /* trim trailing whitespace */
-        while ( len > 0 && isspace(s[len-1]))
-                s[--len]='\0';
+        while (len && isspace(s[len-1])) --len;
 
         /* trim leading whitespace */
-        memmove(s, &s[strspn(s, " \n\r\t\v")], len);
+        if(len) {
+                lws = strspn(s, " \n\r\t\v");
+                memmove(s, s + lws, len -= lws);
+        }
+        s[len] = 0;
 }
 
 /* END CODE */