Re: Patch for GNU/Hurd.

[Jeroen Dekkers]

At Sun, 23 May 2004 07:52:56 -0500,
Harley D. Eades III wrote:
> Hi,
>     I have been investigating a problem with parted on GNU/Hurd.  The 
> problem was a simple one,
> when a user supplied a path parted would segfault.  It works fine if you 
> use the TYPE:NAME  syntax. 
> The problem was you strictly use store_typed_open which only allows the 
> TYPE:NAME syntax.  I added
> a small check to see if the user supplies a path or the TYPE:NAME 
> syntax.  If it is a path use the store_open
> function, if it is TYPE:NAME use  store_typed_open.  You will notice in 
> the patch all I do is check to see if
> there is a '/' in path.  This might not be as sexy of a check feel free 
> to change it. This is just a simple fix. 

I think it's better to check for the ':' and then call
store_typed_open. If you use parted on a filesystem image in the
current work directory it won't have a '/' and therefore it won't work
if you check for '/'. And having a path with a semicolon is very
unlikely so this way it will work probably better.

Jeroen Dekkers