Index: trunk/Ohana/src/opihi/pcontrol/IOBufferOps.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/Ohana/src/opihi/pcontrol/IOBufferOps.c	(revision 3203)
+++ trunk/Ohana/src/opihi/pcontrol/IOBufferOps.c	(revision 3204)
@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@
 
   ALLOCATE (buffer[0].buffer, char, buffer[0].Nalloc);
+  bzero (buffer[0].buffer, buffer[0].Nalloc);
 
   return (TRUE);
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@
 
   if (fd == 0) {
+    fprintf (stderr, "pipe is closed (ReadIOBuffer)\n");
+    return (0);
     /* pipe is closed */
-    return (0);
   }
 
