Merge polly.(none):/home/kaa/src/maint/bug31566/my50-bug31566

into  polly.(none):/home/kaa/src/maint/mysql-5.0-maint

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mysys/my_write.c b/mysys/my_write.c
index 4c3d187e4e8..08d70accd57 100644
--- a/mysys/my_write.c
+++ b/mysys/my_write.c
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ uint my_write(int Filedes, const byte *Buffer, uint Count, myf MyFlags)
 		   Filedes, (long) Buffer, Count, MyFlags));
   errors=0; written=0L;
 
+  /* The behavior of write(fd, buf, 0) is not portable */
+  if (unlikely(!Count))
+    return 0;
+  
   for (;;)
   {
     if ((writenbytes = (uint) write(Filedes, Buffer, Count)) == Count)