-static const char wc_usage[] = "wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...\n\n"
- "Print line, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if\n"
- "more than one FILE is specified. With no FILE, read standard input.\n"
- "\t-c\tprint the byte counts\n"
- "\t-l\tprint the newline counts\n"
+/* Mar 16, 2003 Manuel Novoa III (mjn3@codepoet.org)
+ *
+ * Rewritten to fix a number of problems and do some size optimizations.
+ * Problems in the previous busybox implementation (besides bloat) included:
+ * 1) broken 'wc -c' optimization (read note below)
+ * 2) broken handling of '-' args
+ * 3) no checking of ferror on EOF returns
+ * 4) isprint() wasn't considered when word counting.
+ *
+ * TODO:
+ *
+ * When locale support is enabled, count multibyte chars in the '-m' case.
+ *
+ * NOTES:
+ *
+ * The previous busybox wc attempted an optimization using stat for the
+ * case of counting chars only. I omitted that because it was broken.
+ * It didn't take into account the possibility of input coming from a
+ * pipe, or input from a file with file pointer not at the beginning.
+ *
+ * To implement such a speed optimization correctly, not only do you
+ * need the size, but also the file position. Note also that the
+ * file position may be past the end of file. Consider the example
+ * (adapted from example in gnu wc.c)
+ *
+ * echo hello > /tmp/testfile &&
+ * (dd ibs=1k skip=1 count=0 &> /dev/null ; wc -c) < /tmp/testfile
+ *
+ * for which 'wc -c' should output '0'.
+ */