From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:45:31 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: curl -T: ignore file size of special files
X-Git-Tag: curl-7_21_2~174
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5907777153932e27805b192443dfe2845327a8c4;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git

curl -T: ignore file size of special files

original bug report at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/622520
---

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index d33314b00d..080e572e94 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Curl and libcurl 7.21.2
 
 This release includes the following changes:
 
- o 
+ o curl -T: ignore file size of special files
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 5585c1755b..3b78d602f6 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -4925,7 +4925,10 @@ operate(struct Configurable *config, int argc, argv_item_t argv[])
             goto quit_urls;
           }
           infdopen=TRUE;
-          uploadfilesize=fileinfo.st_size;
+
+          /* we ignore file size for char/block devices, sockets, etc. */
+          if(S_IFREG == (fileinfo.st_mode & S_IFMT))
+            uploadfilesize=fileinfo.st_size;
 
         }
         else if(uploadfile && stdin_upload(uploadfile)) {