make error handling in 9p service loops consistent

when we get eof, stop the loop immidiately and do not
rely on the read to eventually return an error.

when convM2S() fails to decode the message, error out
and stop the loop. there is no point in continuing.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/sys/src/cmd/lnfs.c b/sys/src/cmd/lnfs.c
index c34669b94..dcc2a245d 100644
--- a/sys/src/cmd/lnfs.c
+++ b/sys/src/cmd/lnfs.c
@@ -526,22 +526,11 @@ io(void)
 
 	pid = getpid();
 
-	for(;;){
-		/*
-		 * reading from a pipe or a network device
-		 * will give an error after a few eof reads.
-		 * however, we cannot tell the difference
-		 * between a zero-length read and an interrupt
-		 * on the processes writing to us,
-		 * so we wait for the error.
-		 */
-		n = read9pmsg(mfd[0], mdata, messagesize);
+	while((n = read9pmsg(mfd[0], mdata, messagesize)) != 0){
 		if(n < 0)
-			sysfatal("mount read");
-		if(n == 0)
-			continue;
-		if(convM2S(mdata, n, &thdr) == 0)
-			continue;
+			sysfatal("mount read: %r");
+		if(convM2S(mdata, n, &thdr) != n)
+			sysfatal("convM2S format error: %r");
 
 		if(debug)
 			fprint(2, "%s %d:<-%F\n", argv0, pid, &thdr);