Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 18:37:27 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: rnordier@iafrica.com, terry@lambert.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels? Message-ID: <199607310837.SAA12179@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>All new FS's should expect to work on a "device" that is totally >committed to the FS and looks like it starts at offset 0, and return >EINVAL or EFAULT for out of range operations on the device. If >this were there now, then the MSDOSFS would be incapable of >corrupting non-MSDOSFS disk areas with the current code. It's always been there. Broken code can only write outside the range by corrupting the device number. Bruce
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