From 74afa9aed1b099c6b0af881760a5de74be521f1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Glenn L McGrath
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:26:28 +0000
Subject: When just counting chars of a file stat file instead of reading the
 whole file (Fixes Debian bug #103302)

---
 coreutils/wc.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'coreutils')

diff --git a/coreutils/wc.c b/coreutils/wc.c
index 94f1ee6..15c7692 100644
--- a/coreutils/wc.c
+++ b/coreutils/wc.c
@@ -143,11 +143,15 @@ int wc_main(int argc, char **argv)
 		return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 	} else {
 		while (optind < argc) {
-			file = wfopen(argv[optind], "r");
-			if (file != NULL)
+			if (print_type == print_chars) {
+				struct stat statbuf;
+				stat(argv[optind], &statbuf);
+				print_counts(0, 0, statbuf.st_size, 0, argv[optind]);
+				total_chars += statbuf.st_size;
+			} else {
+				file = xfopen(argv[optind], "r");
 				wc_file(file, argv[optind]);
-			else
-				status = EXIT_FAILURE;
+			}
 			num_files_counted++;
 			optind++;
 		}
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