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;