From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: aq Subject: Re: [PATCH] reiserfs module for pygrub Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:43:59 +0900 Message-ID: <9cde8bff0505181943335e4e4a@mail.gmail.com> References: Reply-To: aq Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Pratt Cc: Jeremy Katz , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 5/19/05, Ian Pratt wrote: > > > Please can you add something to the tools/check directory > > that checks > > > the appropriate headers are installed. > > > > yes, that is easy. > > > > >Also, at runtime, are there > > > issues with libraries being present? > > > > what kind of issues do you want to mention? >=20 > Well, what happens if you build the tools on a box that does have the > reiserfs header files and shared libraries, but then try running them on > a box without. >=20 > The desired behaviour would be that the tools work fine until you try to > access a reiserfs partition, whereupon they report an error gracefully. >=20 > Undesirable behaviour would be refusing to run at all, or crashing if > presented with a resierfs patition. >=20 > > >Can you load the library > > > dynamically if required? > > > > > > > i dont understand why you want to load libs "dynamically"? >=20 > To be able to work without the reiserfs present we may need to load it > dynamically. (same for ext3, but that's more widely installed). i see the point. this should be in TODO list, and solve later. regards, aq