From f970022838285507eb792a171e6c0827c126a656 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:38:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ditto for the announcement message

---
 gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui.cc | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui.cc b/gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui.cc
index 3d79827b3f..0e160ce4d1 100644
--- a/gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui.cc
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui.cc
@@ -818,10 +818,11 @@ ARDOUR_UI::check_announcements ()
 	if (fin) {
 		while (!feof (fin)) {
 			char tmp[1024];
-			if (fread (tmp, sizeof(char), 1024, fin) <= 0) {
+			size_t len;
+			if ((len = fread (tmp, sizeof(char), 1024, fin)) == 0 || ferror (fin)) {
 				break;
 			}
-			_announce_string += tmp;
+			_announce_string.append (tmp, len);
 		}
 		fclose (fin);
 	}