From: Steven Barth <steven@midlink.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:26:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: libs/core: Replace luci.sys.bigendian with a system independent version
X-Git-Tag: 0.8.0~522
X-Git-Url: https://git.archive.openwrt.org/?p=project%2Fluci.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=3899482acab141bf8d629de8de55ef3cf8f85926

libs/core: Replace luci.sys.bigendian with a system independent version
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diff --git a/libs/core/luasrc/sys.lua b/libs/core/luasrc/sys.lua
index 217a36b0f..8e8aab731 100644
--- a/libs/core/luasrc/sys.lua
+++ b/libs/core/luasrc/sys.lua
@@ -31,14 +31,10 @@ require("luci.bits")
 require("luci.util")
 require("luci.fs")
 
---- Test wheather the current system is operating in big endian mode.
--- @return	Boolean value indicating wheather system is big endian
+--- Test whether the current system is operating in big endian mode.
+-- @return	Boolean value indicating whether system is big endian
 function bigendian()
-	local fp = io.open("/bin/sh")
-	fp:seek("set", 5)
-	local be = (fp:read(1):byte() ~= 1)
-	fp:close()
-	return be
+	return string.byte(string.dump(function() end), 7) == 0
 end
 
 --- Execute given commandline and gather stdout.