bug#20225: Email bug report because web-based bug tracking tool is down

[Brian C. Lane]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 01:09:04PM +0000, Nugent, Bill wrote:
> In case I forget I wanted to report a bug with parted where Control-C is 
> treated as an OK response.  I was testing how parted handled a corrupt 
> primary GPT and was rewarded with parted asking if I wanted to use the backup 
> GPT instead with the prompt: "OK/Cancel? " I typed Control-C and it took it 
> as an OK response.
> 
> 
> $ parted fu print unit s print unit chs print
> 
> WARNING: You are not superuser.  Watch out for permissions.
> 
> Error: The primary GPT table is corrupt, but the backup appears OK, so that 
> will be used.
> 
> parted: invalid token: unit
> 
> OK/Cancel? ^C
> 
> Model:  (file)
> 
> Disk /path/to/changed/fu: 4001GB
> 
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> 
> Partition Table: gpt

Thanks for the report, it looks like we've got some places where
ped_exception_throw return values aren't being checked properly -- ^C
should generate a PED_EXCEPTION_UNHANDLED and I see a number of places
that don't take that into account.

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