Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 11/35] util: introduce qemu_file_getlength()

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 12:44:55PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> On 11/06/2015 11:50 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> >As this patch affects raw_getlength(), CCing the raw block driver
> >maintainer and the qemu-block mailing list.
> 
> Eduardo, thanks for your reminder. I will keep CCing Kevin and qemu-block mail
> list for future version.
> 
> >
> >On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 05:13:13PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> >>It is used to get the size of the specified file, also qemu_fd_getlength()
> >>is introduced to unify the code with raw_getlength() in block/raw-posix.c
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <address@hidden>
> >>---
> >>  block/raw-posix.c    |  7 +------
> >>  include/qemu/osdep.h |  2 ++
> >>  util/osdep.c         | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> >I know I was the one who suggested osdep.c, but maybe oslib-posix.c is a
> >more appropriate place for the new function?
> >
> 
> Since the function we introduced here can work on both windows and posix, so
> i thing osdep.c is the right place. Otherwise we should implement it for 
> multiple
> platforms.

I didn't notice it was going to be used by a platform-independent
qemu_file_getlength() function in addition to the posix-specific
raw_getlength(). Have you tested it on Windows, though?

If you didn't test it on Windows, what about keeping
qemu_file_getlength() available only on posix, by now? The only
users are raw-posix.c and hostmem-file.c, currently. If in the
future somebody need it on Windows, they can decide between
moving the SEEK_END code to osdep.c (after testing it), or moving
the existing raw-win32.c:raw_getlength() code to a
oslib-win32.c:qemu_file_getlength() function.

-- 
Eduardo