[REVIEW/TEST] Rewritten floppy driver.

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Aug 19 07:39:06 PDT 2004


In message <20040819141310.GA756 at gicco.homeip.net>, Hanspeter Roth writes:
>  On Aug 19 at 15:43, Poul-Henning Kamp spoke:
>
>> 
>> Please review and test this patch:
>> 
>> 	http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/fdc.patch
>
>Does it handle a write protected floppy that is attempted to be
>mounted writable correctly?

Yes, you shouldn't even be able to mount it.

>If a write protected floppy is attempted to be mounted writable and
>a write will be attempted on the floppy doesn't it prevent all other
>mounted filesystems from being unmounted?

I'm trying to get to where we can fix this sort of stuff properly :-)

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