From: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 17:46:14 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Return error from WriteByte, to match bufio.Writer.
X-Git-Tag: weekly.2009-11-06~1635
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=55b70d6c98d0a12345e0e055c7cc0fd3297255f8;p=gostls13.git

Return error from WriteByte, to match bufio.Writer.

R=gri
DELTA=4  (1 added, 0 deleted, 3 changed)
OCL=28868
CL=28899
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diff --git a/src/lib/io/bytebuffer.go b/src/lib/io/bytebuffer.go
index 5d4cd8add3..c862818fd7 100644
--- a/src/lib/io/bytebuffer.go
+++ b/src/lib/io/bytebuffer.go
@@ -75,10 +75,11 @@ func (b *ByteBuffer) Write(p []byte) (n int, err os.Error) {
 }
 
 // WriteByte appends the byte c to the buffer.
-// Because Write never fails and WriteByte is not part of the
-// io.Writer interface, it does not need to return a value.
-func (b *ByteBuffer) WriteByte(c byte) {
+// The returned error is always nil, but is included
+// to match bufio.Writer's WriteByte.
+func (b *ByteBuffer) WriteByte(c byte) os.Error {
 	b.Write([]byte{c});
+	return nil;
 }
 
 // Read reads the next len(p) bytes from the buffer or until the buffer