[PATCH] read_file: Make it work on tftp servers which do not pass size

[Sascha Hauer]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 09:28:44AM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote:
> Hi Sascha,
> 
> > 
> > No no, you were right. This indeed has to be a loff_t. Where did you
> > find that the fs layer uses size_t? It should do so only for the length
> > arguments of read/write and friends.
> > 
> 
> In function read_file :). The parameter size should be changed to
> loff_t instead of size_t, because we make "*size = s.st_size;".
> 
> 
> 
> The point is, that a file can be greater than 4GB, but we _can't_
> read/write a "block" from a file that is greather than 4GB.
> 
> But in this function we do "read(fd, buf, s.st_size) < s.st_size", this
> need to be in small (max) 4GB pieces(if necessary). In other words, we
> can't use s.st_size here if the file is greater than ((size_t)-1).
> 
> I don't think if we need something like this, because we never handle
> files which are greater than 4GB.
> 
> That's my point of view. This example is only for a 32Bit architecture.

Ok, so read_file is broken for files > 4GiB. I think we can live with
this for a while ;)

BTW the maximum memory size the tlsf allocator can handle is 1GiB, we
have to overcome this first.

Sascha


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