Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:31:14 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggested addition to 'date' Message-ID: <44DD5992.5080409@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20060812041535.GA82669@gothmog.pc> References: <44DD4510.5070002@elischer.org> <20060812033607.GB80768@gothmog.pc> <44DD50FF.5040406@elischer.org> <20060812041535.GA82669@gothmog.pc>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On 2006-08-11 20:54, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: > > >>Yes I said I hacked it in :-) >>In my app you will never have such long lines.. >>basically you need something that reads lines and tells you how much it >>read.. >>(I have no idea WHY fgets need sto return the START.. you already KNOW >>that!) >>it'd be nice if you didn't have to to a strlen() on each line. >> >> > >Perhaps the solution Sam proposed is much better then? > ha! > To read one >character at-a-time and only special-case the '\n' characters? > > I didn't see that being mentionned anywhere, but I guess compared to running date once for every line I could live with a strlen(). :-) it'd probably be more efficient than doing it one char at a time. >Maybe something like this? > > if (sflag) { > > > [...] > otval = tval; > } > (void)printf("%s", buf); > if (fflush(stdout)) > > wonder if it would want to be flushed less often if stdout was a file.. I think stdio would do the right thing in most cases so I guess teh fflush woudl only be needed at the end, after the last file, or maybe just on a signal handler so it flushes out the last buffer on ^C > err(1, "stdout"); > } > } ... > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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