On 2010-10-12, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 12/10/2010 16:36 Matthew Jacob said the following: > > Good workaround, still a nasty surprising bug. > > Yeah. I also would prefer ignoring such a partition or somehow sanitizing its > name or etc. panic(9) on bad internal state of a kernel sounds appropriate, > panic(9) on bad input sounds like trouble.
I am working on a change for GEOM. I will post a patch to -geom for comments shortly. I want just to note that previously bad names could cause erratic behavior (including panics) deep in devfs code instead of catching them early. -- Jaakko _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
