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authorDenys Vlasenko2009-08-10 03:16:18 +0200
committerDenys Vlasenko2009-08-10 03:16:18 +0200
commit79b021d738186ad0c581714626c7d2eea1bb6445 (patch)
treedccc053f0bf2593ca3b279a9d21399822d7a57b3 /coreutils
parente531759ef140c249fcab88a853567d2d31803105 (diff)
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tail: read only a portion of a file if it's huge. closes bug 551
function old new delta tail_main 1494 1526 +32 tail_read 125 129 +4 Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'coreutils')
-rw-r--r--coreutils/tail.c49
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/coreutils/tail.c b/coreutils/tail.c
index 5f98bff..05dadcd 100644
--- a/coreutils/tail.c
+++ b/coreutils/tail.c
@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ static ssize_t tail_read(int fd, char *buf, size_t count)
struct stat sbuf;
/* /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 > 0) {
current = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR);
if (sbuf.st_size < current)
- lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
+ xlseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
}
r = full_read(fd, buf, count);
@@ -174,8 +174,9 @@ int tail_main(int argc, char **argv)
int newlines_seen;
unsigned seen;
int nread;
+ int fd = fds[i];
- if (ENABLE_FEATURE_FANCY_TAIL && fds[i] < 0)
+ if (ENABLE_FEATURE_FANCY_TAIL && fd < 0)
continue; /* may happen with -E */
if (nfiles > header_threshhold) {
@@ -183,30 +184,46 @@ int tail_main(int argc, char **argv)
fmt = header_fmt;
}
- /* Optimizing count-bytes case if the file is seekable.
- * Beware of backing up too far.
- * Also we exclude files with size 0 (because of /proc/xxx) */
- if (COUNT_BYTES && !from_top) {
- off_t current = lseek(fds[i], 0, SEEK_END);
+ if (!from_top) {
+ off_t current = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);
if (current > 0) {
- if (count == 0)
- continue; /* showing zero bytes is easy :) */
- current -= count;
+ unsigned off;
+ if (COUNT_BYTES) {
+ /* Optimizing count-bytes case if the file is seekable.
+ * Beware of backing up too far.
+ * Also we exclude files with size 0 (because of /proc/xxx) */
+ if (count == 0)
+ continue; /* showing zero bytes is easy :) */
+ current -= count;
+ if (current < 0)
+ current = 0;
+ xlseek(fd, current, SEEK_SET);
+ bb_copyfd_size(fd, STDOUT_FILENO, count);
+ continue;
+ }
+#if 1 /* This is technically incorrect for *LONG* strings, but very useful */
+ /* Optimizing count-lines case if the file is seekable.
+ * We assume the lines are <64k.
+ * (Users complain that tail takes too long
+ * on multi-gigabyte files) */
+ off = (count | 0xf); /* for small counts, be more paranoid */
+ if (off > (INT_MAX / (64*1024)))
+ off = (INT_MAX / (64*1024));
+ current -= off * (64*1024);
if (current < 0)
current = 0;
- xlseek(fds[i], current, SEEK_SET);
- bb_copyfd_size(fds[i], STDOUT_FILENO, count);
- continue;
+ xlseek(fd, current, SEEK_SET);
+#endif
}
}
buf = tailbuf;
taillen = 0;
/* "We saw 1st line/byte".
- * Used only by +N code ("start from Nth", 1-based) */
+ * 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) {
+ while ((nread = tail_read(fd, buf, tailbufsize-taillen)) > 0) {
if (from_top) {
int nwrite = nread;
if (seen < count) {