diffutils/lib/cmpbuf.c
1998-09-13 05:33:07 +00:00

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/* Buffer primitives for comparison operations.
Copyright 1993, 1995, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; see the file COPYING.
If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
#include "system.h"
#include "cmpbuf.h"
/* Read NCHARS bytes from descriptor FD into BUF.
Return the number of characters successfully read.
The number returned is always NCHARS unless end-of-file or error. */
size_t
block_read (fd, buf, nchars)
int fd;
char *buf;
size_t nchars;
{
char *bp = buf;
do
{
size_t nread = read (fd, bp, nchars);
if (nread == -1)
return -1;
if (nread == 0)
break;
bp += nread;
nchars -= nread;
}
while (nchars != 0);
return bp - buf;
}
/* Least common multiple of two buffer sizes A and B. */
size_t
buffer_lcm (a, b)
size_t a, b;
{
size_t m, n, r;
/* Yield reasonable values if buffer sizes are zero. */
if (!a)
return b ? b : 8 * 1024;
if (!b)
return a;
/* n = gcd (a, b) */
for (m = a, n = b; (r = m % n) != 0; m = n, n = r)
continue;
return a/n * b;
}