Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

[Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>]

On Tue Oct 23, 2001 at 12:56:15PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 04:23:05AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > Umm.  What possible good would it do to parse dd output?  Check the
> > return code.  or stat the output file if you are paranoid.
> 
> It was a way to determine file size in the absence of wc.  But if you've
> enabled wc in b-f busybox, there is no longer any need.

I did indeed re-enable wc.  But seriously though, if you know
the file's name, couldn't you just stat(2)?  Something like: 

    struct stat statbuf;
    ...
    stat(filename, &statbuf);
    filesize = statbuf.st_size;

 -Erik

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