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-rw-r--r--cmdline/apt-cache.cc7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/cmdline/apt-cache.cc b/cmdline/apt-cache.cc
index 9293a9858..e85492576 100644
--- a/cmdline/apt-cache.cc
+++ b/cmdline/apt-cache.cc
@@ -1225,10 +1225,11 @@ bool DisplayRecord(pkgCache::VerIterator V)
return false;
}
- // Strip the Description
+ // Get a pointer to start of Description field
unsigned char *DescP = (unsigned char*)strstr((char*)Buffer, "Description:");
- *DescP='\0';
- if (write(STDOUT_FILENO,Buffer, strlen((char*)Buffer)+1) != strlen((char *)Buffer)+1)
+
+ // Write all but Description
+ if (fwrite(Buffer,1,DescP - Buffer,stdout) < (size_t)(DescP - Buffer))
{
delete [] Buffer;
return false;