date and time created 89/03/05 18:59:18 by bostic
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1/* fortune.c Larn is copyrighted 1986 by Noah Morgan. */
2#include <sys/types.h>
3#include <sys/stat.h>
4
5#ifndef BSD4.1
6#include <fcntl.h>
7#else BSD4.1
8#define O_RDONLY 0
9#endif BSD4.1
10
11#include "header.h"
12/*
13 * function to return a random fortune from the fortune file
14 */
15static char *base=0; /* pointer to the fortune text */
16static char **flines=0; /* array of pointers to each fortune */
17static int fd=0; /* true if we have load the fortune info */
18static int nlines=0; /* # lines in fortune database */
19
20char *fortune(file)
21 char *file;
22 {
23 register char *p;
24 register int lines,tmp;
25 struct stat stat;
26 char *malloc();
27 if (fd==0)
28 {
29 if ((fd=open(file,O_RDONLY)) < 0) /* open the file */
30 return(0); /* can't find file */
31
32 /* find out how big fortune file is and get memory for it */
33 stat.st_size = 16384;
34 if ((fstat(fd,&stat) < 0) || ((base=malloc(1+stat.st_size)) == 0))
35 {
36 close(fd); fd= -1; free((char*)base); return(0); /* can't stat file */
37 }
38
39 /* read in the entire fortune file */
40 if (read(fd,base,stat.st_size) != stat.st_size)
41 {
42 close(fd); fd= -1; free((char*)base); return(0); /* can't read file */
43 }
44 close(fd); base[stat.st_size]=0; /* final NULL termination */
45
46 /* count up all the lines (and NULL terminate) to know memory needs */
47 for (p=base,lines=0; p<base+stat.st_size; p++) /* count lines */
48 if (*p == '\n') *p=0,lines++;
49 nlines = lines;
50
51 /* get memory for array of pointers to each fortune */
52 if ((flines=(char**)malloc(nlines*sizeof(char*))) == 0)
53 {
54 free((char*)base); fd= -1; return(0); /* malloc() failure */
55 }
56
57 /* now assign each pointer to a line */
58 for (p=base,tmp=0; tmp<nlines; tmp++)
59 {
60 flines[tmp]=p; while (*p++); /* advance to next line */
61 }
62 }
63
64 if (fd > 2) /* if we have a database to look at */
65 return(flines[rund((nlines<=0)?1:nlines)]);
66 else
67 return(0);
68 }