Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:50:13 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proposed bsdlabel patch Message-ID: <20040330005013.GA53546@ns1.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20040329163926.A38109@xorpc.icir.org> References: <20040329163926.A38109@xorpc.icir.org>
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 04:39:26PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > if there are no strong objections, I'd like to commit > the following minor patch to bsdlabel (and associated bsdlabel.8 > changes) to implement a '-f' option which enables bsdlabel to > work on an image file too. As Julian mentioned, why not use stat(2) and DTRT without options? That also removes the gratuitous requirement that the filename has to be an absolute path. See also the implementation of gpt(8)... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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