From 466f62402d3a4507e39cbe0896b25ac283051b49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:45:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] curl -T: ignore file size of special files

original bug report at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/622520
---
 src/main.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 5585c17..3b78d60 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)) {
-- 
1.7.2.1