[PATCH] coreutils tac (was: coreutils tac)

Natanael Copa natanael.copa at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 15:23:02 UTC 2008


Denys, whats the status on the tac patch?

On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 08:29 +0100, Tito wrote:
> On Saturday 29 December 2007 03:18:13 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Friday 28 December 2007 21:36, Tito wrote:
> > > just for fun I've created an alternative version of tac
> > > using only linked lists in memory. Probably the size
> > > is smaller but I haven't checked it yet as I
> > > would like to hear first the opinion of the list
> > > members about it. For the same reason i haven't
> > > attached a patch but only a drop in replacement
> > > of tac.c.
> > > Hints, critics, improvements and correction
> > > are always welcome!!!
> > 
> > Small :)
> > 
> > What will happen with big files?
> > --
> > vda
> > 
> 
> With big files there will be an out of memory error and
> the applet is not NOFORK.
> There are also some bugs with embedded '\0' chars
> and lines ending without '\n'
> that i think i've fixed in this version.
> More tests are needed with special files
> as i tested only with regular files, empty files,
> links, broken links and directories.
> New version attached.
> 
> 
> Ciao,
> TIto





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