Re: [PATCH] [RFC] implement size_append in perl

[Alexander Shishkin]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:23:37 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:01:03PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> > The current implementation has been several times fixed to work around
> > different shells and build environments and it remains a somewhat tricky
> > shell script. This patch replaces all the dependencies by a single line
> > of perl. Build dependency on perl is not new, so that shouldn't be a
> > problem.
> > 
> > The new implementation does exactly what it's supposed to: it outputs
> > a little-endian 32-bit unsigned integer of a file's length.
> > 
> > This might simplify matters with different build environments and
> > different shells and is also considerably shorter and hopefully more
> > readable.
> 
> Reminds me that I had a patch that moved this to mkpiggy.c.
> Goggle gave this hit:
> 
>     http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2009/12/20/92

Ok, thanks for the reference.

> I will try to update this to cover arm also and check
> if other archs needs this.
> 
> In other word - move thes size stuff to mkpiggy so we
> skip this extra step.

Hm, maybe this mkpiggy can be made arch-independent and moved to scripts/
as well?

Regards,
--
Alex
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