On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:21:07PM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:15:39AM +0100, Christoph Badura wrote:
> 
>  > No Unix that I've used in the last 20 years has done this and I've never
>  > had a need to read beyond the end of the raw partition.  And if I suddenly
>  > felt that urge, I'd simply change the disklabel to include more sectors.
>  > There's nothing that prevents you from doing that.
>  > 
>  > Note also that a number of drivers has been bounds checking RAW_PART forever
>  > and nobody seems to complain.
> 
> I have no problem with bounds-checking RAW_PART.  But it should not be
> done with bound_check_with_label().  That function is desinged to bounds-
> check against the disklabel.  RAW_PART is not to be checked against the
> disklabel.  That is my only objection.

I don't think it should be done for SCSI disks and CD, which reports EOM fine.
Something needs to be done for IDE, and I think I've found how.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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