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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC/PATCH] Makefile: allow boards to check file size limits
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:17:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010190017.52346.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101018204337.8534A136320@gemini.denx.de>

On Monday, October 18, 2010 16:43:37 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > +ifneq ($(CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT),)
> > +BOARD_SIZE_CHECK = \
> > +	@actual=`wc -c $@ | awk '{print $$1}'`; \
> 
> How about using
> 
> 	stat -c '%s'
> 
> to get the file size in a single command, without need to actually
> read all the data?

because `stat` isnt portable :(.  it isnt part of the POSIX standard ... OS X 
certainly does not support this, and i imagine most *BSD's dont.

`wc -c` on the other hand should work everywhere and is part of POSIX.  
looking at the `strace` output, the GNU wc doesnt actually read() the file 
when using just the -c option.  seems to use lseek(SEEK_END).
-mike
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-19  4:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-14  2:58 [U-Boot] [RFC/PATCH] Makefile: allow boards to check file size limits Mike Frysinger
2010-10-18 20:43 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-19  4:17   ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2010-10-19  5:24     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-19  5:38       ` Mike Frysinger
2010-10-19 21:29 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-20  4:38   ` Vaibhav Bedia
2010-10-20  5:16     ` Mike Frysinger
2010-10-20  6:56       ` Vaibhav Bedia
2010-10-20  7:19         ` Wolfgang Denk

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