read(): Use char * instead of unsigned char *

This gets rid of some pointless casts.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/archive.cc b/src/libutil/archive.cc
index 046ef841b..ed0eb2fb5 100644
--- a/src/libutil/archive.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/archive.cc
@@ -50,14 +50,14 @@ static void dumpContents(const Path & path, size_t size,
     AutoCloseFD fd = open(path.c_str(), O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
     if (!fd) throw SysError("opening file '%1%'", path);
 
-    std::vector<unsigned char> buf(65536);
+    std::vector<char> buf(65536);
     size_t left = size;
 
     while (left > 0) {
         auto n = std::min(left, buf.size());
         readFull(fd.get(), buf.data(), n);
         left -= n;
-        sink({(char *) buf.data(), n});
+        sink({buf.data(), n});
     }
 
     writePadding(size, sink);
@@ -155,14 +155,14 @@ static void parseContents(ParseSink & sink, Source & source, const Path & path)
     sink.preallocateContents(size);
 
     uint64_t left = size;
-    std::vector<unsigned char> buf(65536);
+    std::vector<char> buf(65536);
 
     while (left) {
         checkInterrupt();
         auto n = buf.size();
         if ((uint64_t)n > left) n = left;
         source(buf.data(), n);
-        sink.receiveContents({(char *) buf.data(), n});
+        sink.receiveContents({buf.data(), n});
         left -= n;
     }