proposed bsdlabel patch

Marcel Moolenaar marcel at xcllnt.net
Mon Mar 29 16:50:14 PST 2004


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)...

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net


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