+Stephen Hi Frank,
On 22 January 2014 16:01, Frank Bormann <fborm...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to read a configuration file from an ext4 disk partition in > u-boot and parse its contents. In order to malloc a buffer of sufficient > size to read the entire file contents, I would need to know the file size > before actually reading it. > > As far as I understand, the current struct fstype_info API does not allow > me to do that (other than parsing the ls output). While the read function > does in fact return the file size, it does so only after the file was > already read into memory. Lower level functions for ext4 such as > ext4fs_open() do however provide this information before reading the file > contents. Unless there is something that I have missed, how would you feel > about me adding a .size function to the struct fstype_info API to expose > this information on the top-level API? > Perhaps .filesize, but this sounds reasonable to me. Regards, Simon > > Thanks, > Frank > > _______________________________________________ > U-Boot mailing list > U-Boot@lists.denx.de > http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot >
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