Re: [PATCH] Re: grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda1 fails

[Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>]

Am Freitag, den 12.06.2009, 01:21 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke:
> Am Donnerstag, den 11.06.2009, 01:00 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke:
> > Am Dienstag, den 09.06.2009, 23:51 +0200 schrieb Vladimir 'phcoder'
> > Serbinenko:
> > 
> > > +
> > > +char *grub_make_system_path_relative_to_its_root (char *path)
> > > +{
> > > +
> > > +  struct stat st;
> > > +  char buf[500], buf2[500];
> > > Use malloc instead of static allocation
> > 
> > Changed.
> > 
> > > +      p = strrchr (buf, '/');
> > > +      if (p != buf)
> > > +	*p = 0;
> > > +      else *++p = 0;
> > > You assume path starts with /. You have to check this. Otherwise you
> > > may get sigsegv
> > 
> > Changed.
> > > +      strcpy(buf2,buf);
> > > Just save (p - buf) instead of copying buf to buf2
> > 
> > I did this now if realpath () isn't avaible.
> > Now realpath is used in case it's avaible. POSIX specifies it and
> > readlink is actually using it if it's avaible. I didn't read the source
> > correctly.
> > The problem is just Cygwin. It has it but it returns the cygwin path.
> > So C:\\Windows would get /cygdrive/c/windows, which is easy to handle.
> > But realpath ("/boot/grub") would return /boot/grub which isn't true
> > from Windows/GRUB point of view.
> > Maybe Christian and Bean can say something about it.
> > MingW doestn't have it and I don't know what Windows would have, so the
> > MingW users would still use my own way.
> 
> Here's now a new one which aborts if realpath is avaible but doestn't
> support (path, NULL)
> and the fallback function is changed to dynamically allocate the memory.
> And now all memory is properly free'd

args just noticed I forgot the *free_ptr = buf2;
I'm too lazy now to send an extra patch just for this.
-- 
Felix Zielcke