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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC/PATCH] Makefile: allow boards to check file size limits
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:24:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101019052444.9E043136320@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010190017.52346.vapier@gentoo.org>

Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <201010190017.52346.vapier@gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > > +	@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 ... OSX 
> certainly does not support this, and i imagine most *BSD's dont.

I see (well, at least FreeBSD 8.1 has "stat"; their man page claims it
"appeared in NetBSD 1.6 and FreeBSD 4.10).

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-19  5:24 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
2010-10-19  5:24     ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
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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