Re: Bug#461442: detection of other OSes in update-grub

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:12:44AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> I do not believe this is an overkill. Do you want grub-probe to print 
> "i-dont-check-my-arguments" (grub-probe --target=device --device 
> i-dont-check-my-arguments) ?
> Even worse, if you select another target than 'device' and if you don't 
> check if the given parameter is *really* a device name, you will pass 
> the faulty parameter over to the other functions that are called in 
> probe () and fail with some "cannot stat ..." message . In my opinion 
> this should not happen. Instead, grub-probe should fail gracefully with 
> a dedicated error messge in this situation as proposed by my patch.

Ok, I don't mind that much.

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