[libvirt] consistency: push "update" hook vs. "make syntax-check"

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:51:41PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> If it matters, we can come up with a more efficient (yet still portable)
> way to compare the last two bytes of each file to "\n\n".
> I went ahead and wrote a nearly-minimal script to do that.
> Rather than reading/processing all 27MB of sources,
> this reads just the last 2 bytes of each of the 1048 files,
> comparing those bytes to "\n\n" and printing the name when
> there's a match:

I just strace'd the 'tail' program  and that does the right
thing too

# strace tail -c 2 somefile
....
open("somefile", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)       = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=10600, ...}) = 0
_llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR)            = 0
_llseek(3, 0, [10600], SEEK_END)        = 0
_llseek(3, -2, [10598], SEEK_END)       = 0
read(3, "l\n"..., 2)                    = 2

> git ls-files -z \
>   | xargs -0 perl -le '
>   foreach my $f (@ARGV) {
>     open F,"<",$f or (warn "failed to open $f: $!\n"), next;
>     my $p = sysseek(F, -2, 2);
>     # seek failure probably means file has < 2 bytes; ignore
>     my $two;
>     defined $p and $p = sysread F,$two,2;
>     close F;
>     # ignore read failure
>     $p && $two eq "\n\n" and (print $f),$fail=1;
>     } END {exit defined $fail ? 1 : 0}'

So using 'tail' instead of this perl script would be more readable
and efficient.

Daniel
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