sh: 2173165883 out of range

[Lombard, David N]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:03:32PM -0500, Kevin Holland wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I wrote a script to download files to a flash device and
> calculate/verify checksums.  I found that depending on the value of the
> cksum this part of my code will fail and give an error of sh: 2173165883
> out of range.
> 
> if [ $CKSUM2 -eq $CKSUM ]; then
>    echo "Done"
>    exit 0
> else
>    echo "Check Sum Failed"
>    exit 1
> fi
> 
> I enabled 64 bit math in busybox to see if this would help but it
> didn't, is this a 32 bit signed integer problem?  Is there a way to fix
> it?

Use a string comparison, i.e., change "-eq" to "="

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David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA
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