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Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/tail.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c index 3dac34bfa..f3b61ca89 100644 --- a/src/tail.c +++ b/src/tail.c @@ -411,17 +411,16 @@ xlseek (int fd, off_t offset, int whence, char const *filename) read NUMBER newlines. START_POS is the starting position of the read pointer for the file associated with FD (may be nonzero). - FILE_LENGTH is the length of the file (one more than the offset of the - last byte of the file). + END_POS is the file offset of EOF (one larger than offset of last byte). Return 0 if successful, 1 if an error occurred. */ static int file_lines (const char *pretty_filename, int fd, long int n_lines, - off_t start_pos, off_t file_length) + off_t start_pos, off_t end_pos) { char buffer[BUFSIZ]; size_t bytes_read; - off_t pos = file_length; + off_t pos = end_pos; if (n_lines == 0) return 0; @@ -465,7 +464,7 @@ file_lines (const char *pretty_filename, int fd, long int n_lines, if (n != bytes_read - 1) xwrite (STDOUT_FILENO, nl + 1, bytes_read - (n + 1)); dump_remainder (pretty_filename, fd, - file_length - (pos + bytes_read)); + end_pos - (pos + bytes_read)); return 0; } } @@ -475,7 +474,7 @@ file_lines (const char *pretty_filename, int fd, long int n_lines, { /* Not enough lines in the file; print the entire file. */ xlseek (fd, start_pos, SEEK_SET, pretty_filename); - dump_remainder (pretty_filename, fd, file_length); + dump_remainder (pretty_filename, fd, end_pos); return 0; } pos -= BUFSIZ; |