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Diffstat (limited to 'coreutils/tail.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | coreutils/tail.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/coreutils/tail.c b/coreutils/tail.c index ef1326c83..5f98bff82 100644 --- a/coreutils/tail.c +++ b/coreutils/tail.c @@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ static ssize_t tail_read(int fd, char *buf, size_t count) off_t current; struct stat sbuf; - /* (A good comment is missing here) */ - current = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR); /* /proc files report zero st_size, don't lseek them. */ - if (fstat(fd, &sbuf) == 0 && sbuf.st_size) + if (fstat(fd, &sbuf) == 0 && sbuf.st_size) { + current = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR); if (sbuf.st_size < current) lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET); + } r = full_read(fd, buf, count); if (r < 0) { @@ -119,10 +119,11 @@ int tail_main(int argc, char **argv) #if ENABLE_FEATURE_FANCY_TAIL /* q: make it impossible for nfiles to be > header_threshhold */ if (opt & 0x8) header_threshhold = UINT_MAX; // -q + //if (opt & 0x10) // -s if (opt & 0x20) header_threshhold = 0; // -v -#define FOLLOW_RETRY (opt & 0x40) +# define FOLLOW_RETRY (opt & 0x40) #else -#define FOLLOW_RETRY 0 +# define FOLLOW_RETRY 0 #endif argc -= optind; argv += optind; @@ -189,7 +190,7 @@ int tail_main(int argc, char **argv) off_t current = lseek(fds[i], 0, SEEK_END); if (current > 0) { if (count == 0) - continue; /* showing zero lines is easy :) */ + continue; /* showing zero bytes is easy :) */ current -= count; if (current < 0) current = 0; @@ -201,12 +202,15 @@ int tail_main(int argc, char **argv) buf = tailbuf; taillen = 0; + /* "We saw 1st line/byte". + * Used only by +N code ("start from Nth", 1-based) */ seen = 1; newlines_seen = 0; while ((nread = tail_read(fds[i], buf, tailbufsize-taillen)) > 0) { if (from_top) { int nwrite = nread; if (seen < count) { + /* We need to skip a few more bytes/lines */ if (COUNT_BYTES) { nwrite -= (count - seen); seen = count; |