/* tailf.c -- tail a log file and then follow it * Created: Tue Jan 9 15:49:21 1996 by faith@acm.org * Copyright 1996, 2003 Rickard E. Faith (faith@acm.org) * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL * THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR * OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, * ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR * OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. * * less -F and tail -f cause a disk access every five seconds. This * program avoids this problem by waiting for the file size to change. * Hence, the file is not accessed, and the access time does not need to be * flushed back to disk. This is sort of a "stealth" tail. */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #ifdef HAVE_INOTIFY_INIT #include #endif #include "nls.h" #include "usleep.h" #define DEFAULT_LINES 10 static void tailf(const char *filename, int lines) { char *buf, *p; int head = 0; int tail = 0; FILE *str; int i; if (!(str = fopen(filename, "r"))) err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("cannot open \"%s\" for read"), filename); buf = malloc(lines * BUFSIZ); p = buf; while (fgets(p, BUFSIZ, str)) { if (++tail >= lines) { tail = 0; head = 1; } p = buf + (tail * BUFSIZ); } if (head) { for (i = tail; i < lines; i++) fputs(buf + (i * BUFSIZ), stdout); for (i = 0; i < tail; i++) fputs(buf + (i * BUFSIZ), stdout); } else { for (i = head; i < tail; i++) fputs(buf + (i * BUFSIZ), stdout); } fflush(stdout); free(buf); fclose(str); } static void roll_file(const char *filename, off_t *size) { char buf[BUFSIZ]; int fd; struct stat st; if (!(fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY))) err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("cannot open \"%s\" for read"), filename); if (fstat(fd, &st) == -1) err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("cannot stat \"%s\""), filename); if (st.st_size == *size) { close(fd); return; } if (lseek(fd, *size, SEEK_SET) != (off_t)-1) { ssize_t rc, wc; while ((rc = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf))) > 0) { wc = write(STDOUT_FILENO, buf, rc); if (rc != wc) warnx(_("incomplete write to \"%s\" (written %zd, expected %zd)\n"), filename, wc, rc); } fflush(stdout); } close(fd); *size = st.st_size; } static void watch_file(const char *filename, off_t *size) { do { roll_file(filename, size); usleep(250000); } while(1); } #ifdef HAVE_INOTIFY_INIT #define EVENTS (IN_MODIFY|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF|IN_UNMOUNT) #define NEVENTS 4 static int watch_file_inotify(const char *filename, off_t *size) { char buf[ NEVENTS * sizeof(struct inotify_event) ]; int fd, ffd, e; ssize_t len; fd = inotify_init(); if (fd == -1) return 0; ffd = inotify_add_watch(fd, filename, EVENTS); if (ffd == -1) { if (errno == ENOSPC) errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("%s: cannot add inotify watch " "(limit of inotify watches was reached)."), filename); err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("%s: cannot add inotify watch."), filename); } while (ffd >= 0) { len = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)); if (len < 0 && (errno == EINTR || errno == EAGAIN)) continue; if (len < 0) err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("%s: cannot read inotify events"), filename); for (e = 0; e < len; ) { struct inotify_event *ev = (struct inotify_event *) &buf[e]; if (ev->mask & IN_MODIFY) roll_file(filename, size); else { close(ffd); ffd = -1; break; } e += sizeof(struct inotify_event) + ev->len; } } close(fd); return 1; } #endif /* HAVE_INOTIFY_INIT */ int main(int argc, char **argv) { const char *filename; int lines = DEFAULT_LINES; struct stat st; off_t size = 0; setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR); textdomain(PACKAGE); argc--; argv++; for (; argc > 0 && argv[0][0] == '-'; argc--, argv++) { if (!strcmp(*argv, "-n") || !strcmp(*argv, "--lines")) { argc--; argv++; if (argc > 0 && (lines = atoi(argv[0])) <= 0) errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("invalid number of lines")); } else if (isdigit(argv[0][1])) { if ((lines = atoi(*argv + 1)) <= 0) errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("invalid number of lines")); } else errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("invalid option")); } if (argc != 1) errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("usage: tailf [-n N | -N] logfile")); filename = argv[0]; if (stat(filename, &st) != 0) err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("cannot stat \"%s\""), filename); size = st.st_size;; tailf(filename, lines); #ifdef HAVE_INOTIFY_INIT if (!watch_file_inotify(filename, &size)) #endif watch_file(filename, &size); return EXIT_SUCCESS; }