tree bcc36a5d96b56859763bd52a52377ed1c081326a
parent 3fd104630020168ead90123e45d848d4d2d0a555
author Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> 1237748405 -0000
committer Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> 1237748405 -0000

libbb: make history saving/loading concurrent-safe
* all history writers always append (not overwrite) history files
* they reload history if they detect that file length has changed since last
write
* they trim history file only when it grows 4 times longer than MAXLINES
* they do this atomically by creating new file and renaming it to old

Unfortunately, this comes at a price:

function                                             old     new   delta
load_history                                           -     346    +346
read_line_input                                     3155    3358    +203
new_line_input_t                                      17      31     +14
...irrelevant small jitter...
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