From: Clarence Dang <clarencedang@yahoo.com>
To: Frank Cox <theatre@melvilletheatre.com>
Cc: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Integer overflow in drive capacity
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:52:45 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706101052.47752.clarencedang@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070602203044.a8c60ebe.theatre@melvilletheatre.com>
On Sunday 03 June 2007 12:30, Frank Cox wrote:
> I remember that there used to be a TSR that would hide most of the space on
> a large hard drive so programs that checked for free space with a
> single-precision variable and the like won't overflow and say that there is
> insufficient free space.
Sorry, I don't know the answer to that one.
> Second, would the capability to hide free disk space from DOS programs be a
> good thing to add to DOSEMU natively, triggered by some sort of optional
> directive?
Probably.
You can also get around the problem by storing your files on a loopback
filesystem of an appropriate size (see the "losetup" command).
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2007-06-03 2:30 Integer overflow in drive capacity Frank Cox
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