Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 3 May 2001 23:59:23 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: iso9660 endianness cleanup patch |
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Hi!
> > I was looking over the iso9660 code, and noticed that it was doing > > endianness conversion via ad hoc *functions*, not even inlines; nor did > > it take any advantage of the fact that iso9660 is bi-endian (has "all" > > data in both bigendian and littleendian format.) > > > > The attached patch fixes both. It is against 2.4.4, but from the looks > > of it it should patch against -ac as well. > > Please beware: There is a can of worms you are openning up here, > since there are many broken CD producer programms out there, which > only provide the little endian data and incorrect big endian > entries. I had some CD's of this form myself. So the endian neutrality > of the iso9660 is only in the theory present...
Hmm, perhaps there's time to fsck.iso9660? Pavel PS: It might be funny to *deliberately* create different filesystems; one on little endian side and one on big endian side. That way windows users would see "macs suck" and mac users "PCs suck", and that with just one cd ;-). -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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