From 4cb7e65dc891e6319608b79fcb1e29e4622f65d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Lankes <slankes@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 10:28:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] revise code to check the boot process

---
 hermit/tools/proxy.c | 33 ++++++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hermit/tools/proxy.c b/hermit/tools/proxy.c
index c47a53666..0c560d61c 100644
--- a/hermit/tools/proxy.c
+++ b/hermit/tools/proxy.c
@@ -142,33 +142,20 @@ static int init_env(void)
 		exit(1);
 	}
 
-	if (str)
-		result = (char*) malloc(strlen(str)+128);
-	else
-		result = (char*) malloc(128);
+	result = NULL;
+	ret = fscanf(file, "%ms", &result);
+	
+	fclose(file);
 
-	if (!result)
-	{
-		perror("malloc");
+	if (ret <= 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "Unable to check the boot process!\n");
 		exit(1);
 	}
 
-	fscanf(file, "%s", result);
-
-	fclose(file);
-
-	if (str) {
-		if (strcmp(result, str) != 0) {
-			free(result);
-			fprintf(stderr, "Unable to boot cores %s\n", result);
-			exit(1);
-		}
-	} else {
-		if (strcmp(result, "1") != 0) {
-			free(result);
-			fprintf(stderr, "Unable to boot core 1");
-			exit(1);
-		}
+	if (strcmp(result, "-1") == 0) {
+		free(result);
+		fprintf(stderr, "Unable to boot cores %s\n", str ? str : "1");
+		exit(1);
 	}
 
 	free(result);