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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: "Maciej Małecki" <me@mmalecki.com>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fdisk: warn if opening a device in write mode failed
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:18:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5310E100.5020405@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393612047.2899.31.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net>

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On 2/28/2014 1:27 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>> You really want to tell the user that they aren't going to be
>> able to write up front.
> 
> Sure why not, just not in a library! You can do this in the fdisk 
> program. And if Karel doesn't agree and wants to apply this patch 
> anyway, then it should *at least* be in DBG context.

Right, which is what I said just after that ;)


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-28 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-27  3:26 [PATCH 1/2] fdisk: warn if opening a device in write mode failed Maciej Małecki
2014-02-27  3:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] fdisk: do not allow writing to a read-only device Maciej Małecki
2014-02-28  2:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] fdisk: warn if opening a device in write mode failed Davidlohr Bueso
2014-02-28 11:00   ` Maciej Małecki
2014-02-28 16:23     ` Phillip Susi
2014-02-28 18:18       ` Maciej Małecki
2014-02-28 18:27       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-02-28 19:18         ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2014-03-03  9:04           ` Karel Zak
2014-03-03 21:19             ` Maciej Małecki
2014-03-03 21:47               ` Phillip Susi
2014-03-21 13:10       ` Karel Zak
2014-03-03 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] fdisk: do not allow writing to a read-only device Maciej Małecki
2014-03-03 21:14   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] libfdisk: remove `O_RDONLY` fallback mode when opening device Maciej Małecki
2014-03-03 21:14   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] fdisk: retry opening device in read-only mode Maciej Małecki

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