# HG changeset patch
# User Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
# Date 1169759437 18000
# Node ID 8018c40605d9359737aedc8ec40f4fc5734985c7
# Parent  e6332139adae9da5de4208a7db5381b8ad1a730a
The fdlength() ioctl apparently doesn't work on files (and the lseek trick
doesn't work on some devices, and we can't always tell _when_ it failed), so
go to the binary search for now.

diff -r e6332139adae -r 8018c40605d9 lib/functions.c
--- a/lib/functions.c	Tue Jan 23 19:54:01 2007 -0500
+++ b/lib/functions.c	Thu Jan 25 16:10:37 2007 -0500
@@ -397,18 +397,6 @@
 	return itoa_buf;
 }
 
-off_t fdlength(int fd)
-{
-	int size;
-
-	if (ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE, &size) >= 0) return size*512L;
-	return -1;
-}
-
-/*
- This might be of use or might not.  Unknown yet...
-
-
 // Return how long the file at fd is, if there's any way to determine it.
 off_t fdlength(int fd)
 {
@@ -430,7 +418,7 @@
 
 		// If we can read from the current location, it's bigger.
 
-		if (lseek(fd, pos, 0)>=0 && safe_read(fd, &temp, 1)==1) {
+		if (lseek(fd, pos, 0)>=0 && read(fd, &temp, 1)==1) {
 			if (bottom == top) bottom = top = (top+1) * 2;
 			else bottom = pos;
 
@@ -447,6 +435,9 @@
 	return pos + 1;
 }
 
+/*
+ This might be of use or might not.  Unknown yet...
+
 // Read contents of file as a single freshly allocated nul-terminated string.
 char *readfile(char *name)
 {