Hi, this diff doesn't just fix the "division by zero" for input files with lines longer than 1023 chars in Plan B mode, it actually removes this line limit!
Before: $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=1024 | tr '\0' a > a $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=1024 | tr '\0' b > b $ diff -u a b > a.diff $ patch -x 8 a a.diff Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |--- a Sat Nov 29 17:34:15 2014 |+++ b Sat Nov 29 17:34:19 2014 -------------------------- Floating point exception (core dumped) $_ After: $ patch -x 8 a a.diff Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |--- a Sat Nov 29 17:34:15 2014 |+++ b Sat Nov 29 17:34:19 2014 -------------------------- Patching file a using Plan B... Hunk #1 succeeded at 1. done With this diff, patch uses fgetln to read very long lines. One could argue that this limits patch to the amount of RAM it has available -- but that will happen anyway because at least twice as much memory as the longest line has to be allocated. fgetln is therefore a good choice to easily parse the file. If you want to regress-test, you can supply "-x 8" in PATCHOPTIONS to enforce Plan B. Keep in mind that test5 will fail because this debug option skips a check if the input file is available. Tobias Index: inp.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/patch/inp.c,v retrieving revision 1.41 diff -u -p -u -p -r1.41 inp.c --- inp.c 25 Nov 2014 10:22:08 -0000 1.41 +++ inp.c 29 Nov 2014 16:14:45 -0000 @@ -55,8 +55,9 @@ static char **i_ptr; /* pointers to line static int tifd = -1; /* plan b virtual string array */ static char *tibuf[2]; /* plan b buffers */ static LINENUM tiline[2] = {-1, -1}; /* 1st line in each buffer */ -static LINENUM lines_per_buf; /* how many lines per buffer */ -static int tireclen; /* length of records in tmp file */ +static size_t lines_per_buf; /* how many lines per buffer */ +static size_t tibuflen; /* plan b buffer length */ +static size_t tireclen; /* length of records in tmp file */ static bool rev_in_string(const char *); static bool reallocate_lines(size_t *); @@ -333,8 +334,8 @@ static void plan_b(const char *filename) { FILE *ifp; - size_t i = 0, j, maxlen = 1; - char *p; + size_t i = 0, j, len, maxlen = 1; + char *lbuf = NULL, *p; bool found_revision = (revision == NULL); using_plan_a = false; @@ -343,15 +344,28 @@ plan_b(const char *filename) (void) unlink(TMPINNAME); if ((tifd = open(TMPINNAME, O_EXCL | O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0666)) < 0) pfatal("can't open file %s", TMPINNAME); - while (fgets(buf, sizeof buf, ifp) != NULL) { - if (revision != NULL && !found_revision && rev_in_string(buf)) + while ((p = fgetln(ifp, &len)) != NULL) { + if (p[len - 1] == '\n') + p[len - 1] = '\0'; + else { + /* EOF without EOL, copy and add the NUL */ + if ((lbuf = malloc(len + 1)) == NULL) + fatal("out of memory\n"); + memcpy(lbuf, p, len); + lbuf[len] = '\0'; + p = lbuf; + + last_line_missing_eol = true; + len++; + } + if (revision != NULL && !found_revision && rev_in_string(p)) found_revision = true; - if ((i = strlen(buf)) > maxlen) - maxlen = i; /* find longest line */ + if (len > maxlen) + maxlen = len; /* find longest line */ } - last_line_missing_eol = i > 0 && buf[i - 1] != '\n'; - if (last_line_missing_eol && maxlen == i) - maxlen++; + free(lbuf); + if (ferror(ifp)) + pfatal("can't read file %s", filename); if (revision != NULL) { if (!found_revision) { @@ -376,23 +390,26 @@ plan_b(const char *filename) revision); } fseek(ifp, 0L, SEEK_SET); /* rewind file */ - lines_per_buf = BUFFERSIZE / maxlen; tireclen = maxlen; - tibuf[0] = malloc(BUFFERSIZE + 1); + tibuflen = maxlen > BUFFERSIZE ? maxlen : BUFFERSIZE; + lines_per_buf = tibuflen / maxlen; + tibuf[0] = malloc(tibuflen + 1); if (tibuf[0] == NULL) fatal("out of memory\n"); - tibuf[1] = malloc(BUFFERSIZE + 1); + tibuf[1] = malloc(tibuflen + 1); if (tibuf[1] == NULL) fatal("out of memory\n"); for (i = 1;; i++) { p = tibuf[0] + maxlen * (i % lines_per_buf); if (i % lines_per_buf == 0) /* new block */ - if (write(tifd, tibuf[0], BUFFERSIZE) < BUFFERSIZE) + if (write(tifd, tibuf[0], tibuflen) != + (ssize_t) tibuflen) pfatal("can't write temp file"); if (fgets(p, maxlen + 1, ifp) == NULL) { input_lines = i - 1; if (i % lines_per_buf != 0) - if (write(tifd, tibuf[0], BUFFERSIZE) < BUFFERSIZE) + if (write(tifd, tibuf[0], tibuflen) != + (ssize_t) tibuflen) pfatal("can't write temp file"); break; } @@ -434,10 +451,11 @@ ifetch(LINENUM line, int whichbuf) tiline[whichbuf] = baseline; if (lseek(tifd, (off_t) (baseline / lines_per_buf * - BUFFERSIZE), SEEK_SET) < 0) + tibuflen), SEEK_SET) < 0) pfatal("cannot seek in the temporary input file"); - if (read(tifd, tibuf[whichbuf], BUFFERSIZE) < 0) + if (read(tifd, tibuf[whichbuf], tibuflen) + != (ssize_t) tibuflen) pfatal("error reading tmp file %s", TMPINNAME); } return tibuf[whichbuf] + (tireclen * offline);