small optimization for history writes

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

Glibc has the weird property that it fflush()es a FILE when you
use ftell() / ftello(). This is probably because it uses some sort
of lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET) internally and that incorrectly flushes
the buffers because buffers need to be flushed on fseek().

Anyway, the small patch below optimizes writes during expire from
90-byte write() to 4K write()s.

The only thing is that I am not sure if ftello is valid after
fputs() or fflush() has returned an error. It probably is, though.

--- history/hisv6/hisv6.c.orig	Fri Nov 30 16:37:55 2001
+++ history/hisv6/hisv6.c	Fri Nov 30 14:44:04 2001
@@ -784,10 +784,15 @@
 	return false;
     }	
 
+#ifndef __GLIBC__
     offset = ftello(h->writefp);
+#endif
     i = fputs(hisline, h->writefp);
     if (i == EOF ||
 	(!(h->flags & HIS_INCORE) && fflush(h->writefp) == EOF)) {
+#ifdef __GLIBC__
+	offset = ftello(h->writefp);
+#endif
 	hisv6_errloc(location, (size_t)-1, offset);
 	/* The history line is now an orphan... */
 	hisv6_seterror(h, concat("can't write history ", h->histpath,


Mike.
-- 
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 and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.

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