xref: /original-bsd/games/larn/fortune.c (revision 9d1db70c)
1 /* fortune.c		 Larn is copyrighted 1986 by Noah Morgan. */
2 #include <sys/types.h>
3 #include <sys/stat.h>
4 #include <fcntl.h>
5 
6 #include "header.h"
7 /*
8  *	function to return a random fortune from the fortune file
9  */
10 static char *base=0;	/* pointer to the fortune text */
11 static char **flines=0;	/* array of pointers to each fortune */
12 static int fd=0;		/* true if we have load the fortune info */
13 static int nlines=0;	/* # lines in fortune database */
14 
15 char *fortune(file)
16 	char *file;
17 	{
18 	register char *p;
19 	register int lines,tmp;
20 	struct stat stat;
21 	char *malloc();
22 	if (fd==0)
23 		{
24 		if ((fd=open(file,O_RDONLY)) < 0)	/* open the file */
25 			return(0); /* can't find file */
26 
27 	/* find out how big fortune file is and get memory for it */
28 		stat.st_size = 16384;
29 		if ((fstat(fd,&stat) < 0) || ((base=malloc(1+stat.st_size)) == 0))
30 			{
31 			close(fd); fd= -1; free((char*)base); return(0); 	/* can't stat file */
32 			}
33 
34 	/* read in the entire fortune file */
35 		if (read(fd,base,stat.st_size) != stat.st_size)
36 			{
37 			close(fd); fd= -1; free((char*)base); return(0); 	/* can't read file */
38 			}
39 		close(fd);  base[stat.st_size]=0;	/* final NULL termination */
40 
41 	/* count up all the lines (and NULL terminate) to know memory needs */
42 		for (p=base,lines=0; p<base+stat.st_size; p++) /* count lines */
43 			if (*p == '\n') *p=0,lines++;
44 		nlines = lines;
45 
46 	/* get memory for array of pointers to each fortune */
47 		if ((flines=(char**)malloc(nlines*sizeof(char*))) == 0)
48 			{
49 			free((char*)base); fd= -1; return(0); /* malloc() failure */
50 			}
51 
52 	/* now assign each pointer to a line */
53 		for (p=base,tmp=0; tmp<nlines; tmp++)
54 			{
55 			flines[tmp]=p;  while (*p++); /* advance to next line */
56 			}
57 		}
58 
59 	if (fd > 2)	/* if we have a database to look at */
60 		return(flines[rund((nlines<=0)?1:nlines)]);
61 	else
62 		return(0);
63 	}
64