1) Use (s)size_t in head().
2) BUGFIX: only check buf[len - 1] when len > 0, else there would
be an overflow when getline returns 0 (which can happen) and a
very potential segmentation fault.
3) fix error-messages.
4) update usage().
5) argv-argc-style.
6) clear up the main loop with if (newline).
7) add newline before return.
1) Make argument-naming consistent with other tools (cp(1), ...)
2) style fixes
3) usage() fix
4) BUGFIX: Probably from the old non-arg.h days, the directory-
check was only done when argc > 3, but with arg.h, this ignores
the case when 3 arguments were given.
This is actually a pretty serious issue and I'm glad it's fixed.
5) Moreover, be more verbose when stat() fails and make it clearer
what the hell is going on at this checkpoint.
1) "duplicate" implies that you can only specify two outputs,
"multiply" is a better word describing the functionality.
2) fix other wording in the manpage
3) fix usage()
4) reorder local variables
5) fix sizeof() style
6) we need argv later, don't increment argv and rather iterate
over argc.
7) Improve error messages, print the filename which the write
failed to instead of printing the buffer itself (how much
sense does that make, printing 1024 Bytes of garbage?).
Also, give the name of the function which failed.
1) no need to include sys/stat.h
2) remove the enum which just added a layer too thick on this simple
program
3) argc-style, other style
4) weprintf instead of enprintf, then save the error-message of
execvp before and return the proper status.
5) write consistent "not reached" comment.
col is used to display troff documents in ttys, removing the reverse
line feeds generated by .2C in ms. This implementation keeps the limit
of 256 lines of 800 characteres of the original implementation.
1) Refactor the manpage, which has been a bloody mess, documenting
fantasy-flags (-d for example) and add a STANDARDS section
2) fix usage()
3) sort ARG-block
4) Check return-value of stat() separately, so a lack of permissions
doesn't tell the user "the directory doesn't exist", which could
be a bit confusing.
5) Add empty line before return.
1) Fix usage()
2) Group local variables
3) Idiomatic argv-loop
4) BUGFIX: When the m-flag is specified, POSIX clearly says:
"Set the file permission bits of the newly-created FIFO to the specified mode
value."
This means, that if mkfifo() fails for some reason, it should not try to
chmod() the given path (which has been fixed with the "else if")
A simple testcase is:
$ touch testfile; mkfifo -m 000 testfile;
GNU mkfifo(1): ls -l testfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 testfile
sbase mkfifo(1): ls -l testfile
---------- 1 testfile
5) Add blank line before return
1) val is sufficient as "int" (read the standard)
2) BUGFIX: If getpriority fails, it returns -1 and sets errno.
Previously, it would correctly catch the errno but not take
care of the fact that by then val has been decremented by 1.
Only change val if the getpriority-call has been successful.
3) Add LIMIT()-macro from st to increase readability.
4) setpriority returns < 0 on failure
5) Remove bikeshedding-comment. Read the standard if you wonder.
6) return-value trick from env(1)
1) style fix (don't arrange local variables)
2) BUGFIX: Previously, if ret was turned 1 for some folder, it
would disable the p-flag for every following folders, which
is not desired.
Instead, the "else if" makes sure that the p-flag-section is
only entered when the initial rmdir succeeds.
3) BUGFIX: Previously, the program would cancel with eprintf if
it failed to remove one folder in the parent-pathname.
This is not desired, as we have other folders pending.
Instead, print a warning for the current failing parent-folder,
set ret to 1 and break off the loop at this point.
This allows to finish the other pending folders without issues.
1) Update usage as already done in the manpage
2) group and sort local variable declarations
3) Be pedantic about the number of options. Don't just ignore it
if argc > 1.
1) Shorten synopsis and reflect this in the manual
2) Use argv0 in usage()
3) Decrement argc in argv-loop for consistency
4) Make it clearer which error-code results from which errno in enprintf
5) Use idiomatic for-loop also for environ. Don't increment these pointers
in the loop itself!
1) Fix usage ... spacing
2) use *argv instead of argv[0] in the idiomatic for-loop
3) Stop the naïve usage of "/dev/fd/0" and use plain stdin
instead (This also makes error-messages more consistent).
4) Add newline before return
5) Remove comma in manpage
Now that -c behaves correctly, the tools are pretty much done.
Only the manpages were not clear enough what happens when you
specify the c-flag.
This is fixed now.
1) be stricter which number of arguments is accepted (1 or 2)
2) basename already returns a pointer to "." is argv[0] is ""
3) No need to check for *p != '/', because basename() only returns
a string beginning with '/' which has length 1, so if strlen(p)
== 1, the only way for suffix to be "evaluated" is for off to
be > 0, being equal to suffix being "", but "" != "/".
4) don't calculate strlen twice for each string. Store it in a
ssize_t and check if it's > 0.
Okay, so why another section?
The finished-section applies to general feature-completeness and
manual status. It somehow is not an indicator for general code-
clarity, so the audited-column reflects a thorough audit of the
underlying code and optimization.
Take a look at the upcoming basename(1)-patch for an example on
how this goes.
