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authorTobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>2007-06-04 14:32:20 +0200
committerTobias Klauser <tklauser@xenon.tklauser.home>2007-06-04 14:32:20 +0200
commit01f54bb5e9a1d6373a508859dcc809f5cdb5cd64 (patch)
tree4b94f006ddc811ab020e67e4b353d41cd8e95296 /inotail.c
parent8da82b981b2c73c8e353f2d8054581d304adc3bf (diff)
inotail.c: Handle return value of lseek
lseek() could fail so we better handle it. Based on a patch by Folkert van Heusden
Diffstat (limited to 'inotail.c')
-rw-r--r--inotail.c25
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/inotail.c b/inotail.c
index 3a4bc1a..bb27702 100644
--- a/inotail.c
+++ b/inotail.c
@@ -132,7 +132,10 @@ static off_t lines_to_offset_from_end(struct file_struct *f, unsigned long n_lin
/* Start of current block */
offset -= block_size;
- lseek(f->fd, offset, SEEK_SET);
+ if (lseek(f->fd, offset, SEEK_SET) == (off_t) -1) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "Error: Could not seek in file '%s' (%s)\n", f->name, strerror(errno));
+ return -1;
+ }
rc = read(f->fd, buf, block_size);
if (unlikely(rc < 0)) {
@@ -166,7 +169,10 @@ static off_t lines_to_offset_from_begin(struct file_struct *f, unsigned long n_l
int i;
ssize_t rc, block_size = BUFFER_SIZE;
- lseek(f->fd, offset, SEEK_SET);
+ if (lseek(f->fd, offset, SEEK_SET) == (off_t) -1) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "Error: Could not seek in file '%s' (%s)\n", f->name, strerror(errno));
+ return -1;
+ }
rc = read(f->fd, buf, block_size);
if (unlikely(rc < 0)) {
@@ -220,7 +226,7 @@ static ssize_t tail_pipe(struct file_struct *f)
if (verbose)
write_header(f->name);
- /* We will just tail everything here */
+ /* FIXME: We will just tail everything here for now */
while ((rc = read(f->fd, buf, BUFFER_SIZE)) > 0) {
if (write(STDOUT_FILENO, buf, (size_t) rc) <= 0) {
/* e.g. when writing to a pipe which gets closed */
@@ -282,7 +288,10 @@ static int tail_file(struct file_struct *f, unsigned long n_units, char mode, ch
if (verbose)
write_header(f->name);
- lseek(f->fd, offset, SEEK_SET);
+ if (lseek(f->fd, offset, SEEK_SET) == (off_t) -1) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "Error: Could not seek in file '%s' (%s)\n", f->name, strerror(errno));
+ return -1;
+ }
while ((bytes_read = read(f->fd, buf, BUFFER_SIZE)) > 0)
write(STDOUT_FILENO, buf, (size_t) bytes_read);
@@ -309,7 +318,13 @@ static int handle_inotify_event(struct inotify_event *inev, struct file_struct *
if (verbose)
write_header(f->name);
- lseek(f->fd, f->st_size, SEEK_SET); /* Old file size */
+ /* Seek to old file size */
+ if (lseek(f->fd, f->st_size, SEEK_SET) == (off_t) -1) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "Error: Could not seek in file '%s' (%s)\n", f->name, strerror(errno));
+ ret = -1;
+ goto ignore;
+ }
+
while ((rc = read(f->fd, fbuf, BUFFER_SIZE)) != 0)
write(STDOUT_FILENO, fbuf, (size_t) rc);