[U-Boot] [PATCH v1 1/1] fs: fat/ext4/sandbox: Deal with files > 2GB in ls and size commands

[Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>]

On Wed 2014-10-08 14:08:45, Suriyan Ramasami wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de> wrote:
> > On Wed 2014-10-08 13:23:48, Suriyan Ramasami wrote:
> >> The commands fatls/ext4ls give -ve values when dealing with files > 2GB.
> >> The commands fatsize/ext4size do not update the variable filesize for
> >> these files.
> >>
> >> To deal with this, the functions *_size have been modified to take a second
> >> parameter of type "* off_t" which is then populated. The return value of the
> >> *_size function is then only used to determine error conditions.
> >
> > Would not it be better to simply change return type of affected
> > functions to off_t?
> >
> > (If off_t is unsigned, invent signed off_t. It is still nicer than
> > extra parameter.)
> >>
> 
> off_t is 32 bits in 32 bit architectures. So, signed or unsigned it
> shall always have a case where it will be impossible to detect a valid
> file size vs an error condition, right?
> For example if we return 0xFFFFFFFF, is that an error condition or the
> actual file size?
> Another approach would be to make the return value off64_t, but then
> in sandbox cases we will hit the same issue of differentiating a valid
> file size vs an error condition (although we possibly would never have
> such a huge file)

I'd just make it off64_t. Because otherwise you fixed files in
2GB..4GB range, but still have problems for >4GB files.

									Pavel
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