Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jan 1999 00:53:41 +0200 (EET) | From | Alex Miller <> | Subject | Re: problems with looped extended partitions |
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On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Guest section DW wrote:
> In file genhd.c at line 205 is eternal loop, which produce potential > problems when we have record in partition table, pointed at yourself. In this > case kernel hangs while booting. > All this work in stable and development kernels, and seems to be in > long awaited 2.2.0. :( > > Yes. Did you encounter this in real life?
Of course, it was result of trojan software, which one of users runs on his computer. I make patch, may be not so nice, but it worked.
> Of course a fix would be trivial. Say
Thanks!
But I think linux kernel must do _not_ hangs while booting in any cases, ain't? btw - from DOS, OS/2, NT4 and Linux only NT don't catched this trap.
-- Alex Miller asmm@usa.net
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