[PATCH] coreutils tac (was: coreutils tac)

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 02 January 2008 15:23, Natanael Copa wrote:
> 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.

I will take a look and probably will apply it on weekend.
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vda