src/utils_tail: Remove newline characters at the end of a line.

The tool is supposed to work line-based, so a) the newline character is
implicit and b) imho, does not belong to the string which is then further
processed.

Also, this allows '$' to match the end of a line when applying a regex to the
line, no matter if the REG_NEWLINE flag has been used when compiling the regex
or not.

diff --git a/src/utils_tail.c b/src/utils_tail.c
index 904a52122e7e40d4d6ebcc47788d218fe99888fa..5b7551d3a18f4925cb0403f454350373c8c7c6e8 100644 (file)
--- a/src/utils_tail.c
+++ b/src/utils_tail.c
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ int cu_tail_read (cu_tail_t *obj, char *buf, int buflen, tailfunc_t *callback,
 
        while (42)
        {
+               size_t len;
+
                status = cu_tail_readline (obj, buf, buflen);
                if (status != 0)
                {
@@ -232,6 +234,13 @@ int cu_tail_read (cu_tail_t *obj, char *buf, int buflen, tailfunc_t *callback,
                if (buf[0] == 0)
                        break;
 
+               len = strlen (buf);
+               while (len > 0) {
+                       if (buf[len - 1] != '\n')
+                               break;
+                       buf[len - 1] = '\0';
+               }
+
                status = callback (data, buf, buflen);
                if (status != 0)
                {