Omari Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This would probably be an upstream question, but is there no way to > check for a null pointer before dereferencing it? I'm not familiar with > kernel or AFS coding, but it seems like calling a function on faith with > an inconsistent API is asking for problems.
Yeah, I find it odd that it fails in the way that it does. The best idea that I've been able to come up with so far is to have afsd do a statfs() of the cache path, if memory cache is not used, and then inspect the f_type value of the returned struct and make sure that it's EXT2_SUPER_MAGIC or EXT3_SUPER_MAGIC. (I'm not sure if any of the other file system types are allowable; that's the conservative approach.) If there were a command-line program that would return the same information, I could just call that in the init script, but I don't know of one. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
