Tail works on stdin, too. Can't mmap that. The usual way is to buffer the last N lines read in a ring buffe.r
On Aug 14, 4:22 pm, Prem Mallappa <prem.malla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tail by default displays last 10 lines of file. > > 1. mmap the file > 2. keep two pointers(A, B) pointing to beginning of the file > 2. search for 10th "\n" using B, if not found i.e file has less than > 10 lines, print from beginning to end > 3. if found, start incrementing both A and B to the next "\n". untill > B reaches end of file. > 4. Print from A till end of file. > > On 13 Aug, 23:13, amit <amitjaspal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I am trying using fseek but somehow its not working? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
