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

[Sascha Hauer]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:03:31AM +0200, Jan Weitzel wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 20.06.2013, 17:24 +0200 schrieb Sascha Hauer:
> > 
> > How do you want to do that? You would have to transfer the whole file
> > first and see how big it is. That works for small files we expect to fit
> > into memory like the ones read_file normally is called with. If you want
> > to transfer a rootfs image it might happen that it's bigger than the
> > available memory.
> That's a good point. I didn't see a way for big files. But setting the
> st_size to FILESIZE_MAX can cause trouble in other commands. ubiformat
> only blames that is doesn't fit to eraseblock boundaries.

Have you tried it?

> ll -l shows a
> really big size.

You'll never see this. Listing directories is not implemented in the
tftp protocol.

> What do you think about handle it complete in read_file
> if size == 0?

Maybe. What happens if the file is really 0 bytes big?

Sascha

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