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Re: [PATCH] Large image file support for grub-fstest


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Large image file support for grub-fstest
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 23:14:42 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:05:56PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
> The new command "grub-fstest" may not work for large image files or 
> /dev/sdX devices on 32-bit platforms.
> 
> Legacy C89 functions fseek() and ftell() always use "long" as offset 
> type. The attached patch changes this to fseeko() and ftello() which use 
> off_t. These are part of POSIX, so new ./configure stuff should be not 
> necessary.
> 
> Christian
> 
> 2008-02-07  Christian Franke  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * util/hostfs.c (grub_hostfs_open): Use fseeko and ftello
>       instead of fseek and ftell to support large files.
>       (grub_hostfs_read): Likewise.

Committed, thanks.

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Robert Millan

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