Looks like a bug in the 7300 disk driver

was-John McMillan jcm at mtunb.ATT.COM
Wed Jan 11 09:58:06 AEST 1989


In article <983 at mstar.UUCP> karl at mstar.UUCP (Karl Fox) writes:
>Come on, folks!  If you provide a 4-byte buffer to read, it is a BUG to
>write 512 bytes to it!  Sure, the raw disk device has size limitations,
>but it should never round up.  The driver should probably return EINVAL
>if the size isn't a multiple of 512.

	OK.  I agree.  But I live in terror of making this patch and
	finding it breaks someone's code.

jc mcmillan



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