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FRIGN
0545d32ce9 Handle '-' consistently
In general, POSIX does not define /dev/std{in, out, err} because it
does not want to depend on the dev-filesystem.
For utilities, it thus introduced the '-'-keyword to denote standard
input (and output in some cases) and the programs have to deal with
it accordingly.

Sadly, the design of many tools doesn't allow strict shell-redirections
and many scripts don't even use this feature when possible.

Thus, we made the decision to implement it consistently across all
tools where it makes sense (namely those which read files).

Along the way, I spotted some behavioural bugs in libutil/crypt.c and
others where it was forgotten to fshut the files after use.
2015-05-16 13:34:00 +01:00
FRIGN
9016d288f1 Do not use arg.h for tools which take no flags
We've already seen the issue with echo(1): Before we changed it to
ignore "--", the command

$ echo --

did not work as expected. Given POSIX mandated this and makes most
sense, in the interest of consistency the other tools need to be
streamlined for that as well.
Looking at yes(1) for instance, there's no reason to skip "--" in
the argument list.
We do not have long options like GNU does and there's no reason to
tinker with that here.

The majority of tools changed are ones taking lists of arguments
or only a single one. There's no reason why dirname should "fail"
on "--". In the end, this is a valid name.

The practice of hand-holding the user was established with the GNU
coreutils. "--help" and "--version" long-options are a disgrace to
what could've been done properly with manpages.
2015-04-25 11:43:14 +01:00
FRIGN
11e2d472bf Add *fshut() functions to properly flush file streams
This has been a known issue for a long time. Example:

printf "word" > /dev/full

wouldn't report there's not enough space on the device.
This is due to the fact that every libc has internal buffers
for stdout which store fragments of written data until they reach
a certain size or on some callback to flush them all at once to the
kernel.
You can force the libc to flush them with fflush(). In case flushing
fails, you can check the return value of fflush() and report an error.

However, previously, sbase didn't have such checks and without fflush(),
the libc silently flushes the buffers on exit without checking the errors.
No offense, but there's no way for the libc to report errors in the exit-
condition.

GNU coreutils solve this by having onexit-callbacks to handle the flushing
and report issues, but they have obvious deficiencies.
After long discussions on IRC, we came to the conclusion that checking the
return value of every io-function would be a bit too much, and having a
general-purpose fclose-wrapper would be the best way to go.

It turned out that fclose() alone is not enough to detect errors. The right
way to do it is to fflush() + check ferror on the fp and then to a fclose().
This is what fshut does and that's how it's done before each return.
The return value is obviously affected, reporting an error in case a flush
or close failed, but also when reading failed for some reason, the error-
state is caught.

the !!( ... + ...) construction is used to call all functions inside the
brackets and not "terminating" on the first.
We want errors to be reported, but there's no reason to stop flushing buffers
when one other file buffer has issues.
Obviously, functionales come before the flush and ret-logic comes after to
prevent early exits as well without reporting warnings if there are any.

One more advantage of fshut() is that it is even able to report errors
on obscure NFS-setups which the other coreutils are unable to detect,
because they only check the return-value of fflush() and fclose(),
not ferror() as well.
2015-04-05 09:13:56 +01:00
sin
76ea3fdd52 cksum: Report exit status properly 2015-03-11 12:35:29 +00:00
FRIGN
d6818a3c5f Audit cksum(1)
1) Reorder local variables.
2) Cleanup error messages, use %zu for size_t.
3) combine putchar(' ') and fputs to substitute printf(" %s", s).
4) Fix usage().
5) argv-argc-usage-fix.
6) Add empty line before return.
2015-03-11 00:13:48 +01:00
FRIGN
31572c8b0e Clean up #includes 2015-02-14 21:12:23 +01:00
FRIGN
43b8fa1a58 Add mandoc-manpage for cksum(1) and clean up code
and mark it as done in README.
2015-01-17 23:09:41 +00:00
FRIGN
7fc5856e64 Tweak NULL-pointer checks
Use !p and p when comparing pointers as opposed to explicit
checks against NULL.  This is generally easier to read.
2014-11-14 10:54:30 +00:00
FRIGN
7d2683ddf2 Sort includes and more cleanup and fixes in util/ 2014-11-14 10:54:10 +00:00
FRIGN
eee98ed3a4 Fix coding style
It was about damn time. Consistency is very important in such a
big codebase.
2014-11-13 18:08:43 +00:00
sin
0c5b7b9155 Stop using EXIT_{SUCCESS,FAILURE} 2014-10-02 23:46:59 +01:00
Hiltjo Posthuma
953ebf3573 code style
Signed-off-by: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>
2014-06-01 18:02:30 +01:00
dwts
459161481a use always static for usage and keep usage definition above main 2014-04-22 14:49:23 +01:00
FRIGN
a4d9b7b11e Use PRIu32 and avoid cast 2014-02-01 20:16:14 +00:00
sin
04a32251e4 Use uint32_t instead of unsigned int in cksum(1) 2014-01-31 13:53:28 +00:00
sin
b8edf3b4ee Add weprintf() and replace fprintf(stderr, ...) calls
There is still some programs left to be updated for this.

Many of these programs would stop on the first file that they
could not open.
2013-11-13 11:41:43 +00:00
sin
8fdfa7caeb Convert cksum(1) to use FILE * instead of an fd
In sbase we generally do I/O through FILE * instead of file
descriptors directly.

Do not error out on the first file that can't be opened.
2013-11-12 11:17:08 +00:00
stateless
c1c367c1bd Explicitly cast len to unsigned long for %lu 2013-07-02 14:09:36 -04:00
Connor Lane Smith
fcb8821246 revert to per-cmd usage() 2012-05-15 13:32:56 +01:00
Connor Lane Smith
f3188246d8 cksum: ARGBEGIN, no buffering 2012-05-14 21:30:02 +01:00
Connor Lane Smith
70ba7a6e62 cksum: error check 2011-06-10 04:36:40 +01:00
Connor Lane Smith
6be3e82218 add cksum 2011-06-10 04:14:05 +01:00