/* tailf.c -- tail a log file and then follow it * Created: Tue Jan 9 15:49:21 1996 by faith@acm.org * Copyright 1996, 2003 Rickard E. Faith (faith@acm.org) * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL * THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR * OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, * ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR * OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. * * less -F and tail -f cause a disk access every five seconds. This * program avoids this problem by waiting for the file size to change. * Hence, the file is not accessed, and the access time does not need to be * flushed back to disk. This is sort of a "stealth" tail. */ #include #include #include #include #include #include "nls.h" static size_t filesize(const char *filename) { struct stat sb; if (!stat(filename, &sb)) return sb.st_size; return 0; } static void tailf(const char *filename, int lines) { char **buffer; int head = 0; int tail = 0; FILE *str; int i; if (!(str = fopen(filename, "r"))) { fprintf(stderr, _("Cannot open \"%s\" for read\n"), filename); perror(""); exit(1); } buffer = malloc(lines * sizeof(*buffer)); for (i = 0; i < lines; i++) buffer[i] = malloc(BUFSIZ + 1); while (fgets(buffer[tail], BUFSIZ, str)) { if (++tail >= lines) { tail = 0; head = 1; } } if (head) { for (i = tail; i < lines; i++) fputs(buffer[i], stdout); for (i = 0; i < tail; i++) fputs(buffer[i], stdout); } else { for (i = head; i < tail; i++) fputs(buffer[i], stdout); } fflush(stdout); for (i = 0; i < lines; i++) free(buffer[i]); free(buffer); } int main(int argc, char **argv) { char buffer[BUFSIZ]; size_t osize, nsize; FILE *str; const char *filename; int count; setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR); textdomain(PACKAGE); if (argc != 2) { fprintf(stderr, _("Usage: tailf logfile\n")); exit(1); } filename = argv[1]; tailf(filename, 10); for (osize = filesize(filename);;) { nsize = filesize(filename); if (nsize != osize) { if (!(str = fopen(filename, "r"))) { fprintf(stderr, _("Cannot open \"%s\" for read\n"), filename); perror(argv[0]); exit(1); } if (!fseek(str, osize, SEEK_SET)) while ((count = fread(buffer, 1, sizeof(buffer), str)) > 0) fwrite(buffer, 1, count, stdout); fflush(stdout); fclose(str); osize = nsize; } usleep(250000); /* 250mS */ } return 0; }