1 /* histfile.c - functions to manipulate the history file. */
3 /* Copyright (C) 1989, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file contains the GNU History Library (the Library), a set of
6 routines for managing the text of previously typed lines.
8 The Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
9 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
10 the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
13 The Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
14 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
15 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
16 General Public License for more details.
18 The GNU General Public License is often shipped with GNU software, and
19 is generally kept in a file called COPYING or LICENSE. If you do not
20 have a copy of the license, write to the Free Software Foundation,
21 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
23 /* The goal is to make the implementation transparent, so that you
24 don't have to know what data types are used, just what functions
25 you can call. I think I have done that. */
26 #define READLINE_LIBRARY
28 #if defined (HAVE_CONFIG_H)
34 #include <sys/types.h>
36 # include <sys/file.h>
41 #if defined (HAVE_STDLIB_H)
44 # include "ansi_stdlib.h"
45 #endif /* HAVE_STDLIB_H */
47 #if defined (HAVE_UNISTD_H)
51 #if defined (HAVE_STRING_H)
55 #endif /* !HAVE_STRING_H */
62 /* If we're not compiling for __EMX__, we don't want this at all. Ever. */
75 /* Functions imported from shell.c */
76 extern char *get_env_value ();
78 extern char *xmalloc (), *xrealloc ();
80 /* Return the string that should be used in the place of this
81 filename. This only matters when you don't specify the
82 filename to read_history (), or write_history (). */
84 history_filename (filename)
87 char *return_val, *home;
90 return_val = filename ? savestring (filename) : (char *)NULL;
95 home = get_env_value ("HOME");
103 home_len = strlen (home);
105 return_val = xmalloc (2 + home_len + 8); /* strlen(".history") == 8 */
106 strcpy (return_val, home);
107 return_val[home_len] = '/';
108 strcpy (return_val + home_len + 1, ".history");
113 /* Add the contents of FILENAME to the history list, a line at a time.
114 If FILENAME is NULL, then read from ~/.history. Returns 0 if
115 successful, or errno if not. */
117 read_history (filename)
120 return (read_history_range (filename, 0, -1));
123 /* Read a range of lines from FILENAME, adding them to the history list.
124 Start reading at the FROM'th line and end at the TO'th. If FROM
125 is zero, start at the beginning. If TO is less than FROM, read
126 until the end of the file. If FILENAME is NULL, then read from
127 ~/.history. Returns 0 if successful, or errno if not. */
129 read_history_range (filename, from, to)
133 register int line_start, line_end;
134 char *input, *buffer;
135 int file, current_line;
139 buffer = (char *)NULL;
140 input = history_filename (filename);
141 file = open (input, O_RDONLY|O_BINARY, 0666);
143 if ((file < 0) || (fstat (file, &finfo) == -1))
146 file_size = (size_t)finfo.st_size;
148 /* check for overflow on very large files */
149 if (file_size != finfo.st_size || file_size + 1 < file_size)
157 buffer = xmalloc (file_size + 1);
158 if (read (file, buffer, file_size) != file_size)
172 /* Set TO to larger than end of file if negative. */
176 /* Start at beginning of file, work to end. */
177 line_start = line_end = current_line = 0;
179 /* Skip lines until we are at FROM. */
180 while (line_start < file_size && current_line < from)
182 for (line_end = line_start; line_end < file_size; line_end++)
183 if (buffer[line_end] == '\n')
186 line_start = line_end + 1;
187 if (current_line == from)
192 /* If there are lines left to gobble, then gobble them now. */
193 for (line_end = line_start; line_end < file_size; line_end++)
194 if (buffer[line_end] == '\n')
196 buffer[line_end] = '\0';
198 if (buffer[line_start])
199 add_history (buffer + line_start);
203 if (current_line >= to)
206 line_start = line_end + 1;
215 /* Truncate the history file FNAME, leaving only LINES trailing lines.
216 If FNAME is NULL, then use ~/.history. */
218 history_truncate_file (fname, lines)
223 int file, chars_read;
224 char *buffer, *filename;
228 buffer = (char *)NULL;
229 filename = history_filename (fname);
230 file = open (filename, O_RDONLY|O_BINARY, 0666);
232 if (file == -1 || fstat (file, &finfo) == -1)
235 file_size = (size_t)finfo.st_size;
237 /* check for overflow on very large files */
238 if (file_size != finfo.st_size || file_size + 1 < file_size)
247 buffer = xmalloc (file_size + 1);
248 chars_read = read (file, buffer, file_size);
254 /* Count backwards from the end of buffer until we have passed
256 for (i = chars_read - 1; lines && i; i--)
258 if (buffer[i] == '\n')
262 /* If this is the first line, then the file contains exactly the
263 number of lines we want to truncate to, so we don't need to do
264 anything. It's the first line if we don't find a newline between
265 the current value of i and 0. Otherwise, write from the start of
266 this line until the end of the buffer. */
268 if (buffer[i] == '\n')
274 /* Write only if there are more lines in the file than we want to
276 if (i && ((file = open (filename, O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC|O_BINARY, 0600)) != -1))
278 write (file, buffer + i, file_size - i);
290 /* Workhorse function for writing history. Writes NELEMENT entries
291 from the history list to FILENAME. OVERWRITE is non-zero if you
292 wish to replace FILENAME with the entries. */
294 history_do_write (filename, nelements, overwrite)
296 int nelements, overwrite;
302 mode = overwrite ? O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_BINARY : O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_BINARY;
303 output = history_filename (filename);
305 if ((file = open (output, mode, 0600)) == -1)
311 if (nelements > history_length)
312 nelements = history_length;
314 /* Build a buffer of all the lines to write, and write them in one syscall.
315 Suggested by Peter Ho (peter@robosts.oxford.ac.uk). */
317 HIST_ENTRY **the_history; /* local */
322 the_history = history_list ();
323 /* Calculate the total number of bytes to write. */
324 for (buffer_size = 0, i = history_length - nelements; i < history_length; i++)
325 buffer_size += 1 + strlen (the_history[i]->line);
327 /* Allocate the buffer, and fill it. */
328 buffer = xmalloc (buffer_size);
330 for (j = 0, i = history_length - nelements; i < history_length; i++)
332 strcpy (buffer + j, the_history[i]->line);
333 j += strlen (the_history[i]->line);
337 write (file, buffer, buffer_size);
348 /* Append NELEMENT entries to FILENAME. The entries appended are from
349 the end of the list minus NELEMENTs up to the end of the list. */
351 append_history (nelements, filename)
355 return (history_do_write (filename, nelements, HISTORY_APPEND));
358 /* Overwrite FILENAME with the current history. If FILENAME is NULL,
359 then write the history list to ~/.history. Values returned
360 are as in read_history ().*/
362 write_history (filename)
365 return (history_do_write (filename, history_length, HISTORY_OVERWRITE));