Subject: Re: lseek(2) & read(2) on raw cd(4) device
To: None <is@beverly.kleinbus.org, smd@ebone.net>
From: Sean Doran <smd@ebone.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/25/2000 00:40:27
[About why we don't bounds-check on RAW_PART]

| We can't because (at least for disks) we use it to read and write the disk
| label, when there isn't any.

Oh, ah, oh, ah, I am enlightened.  Can this be noted in sd(4) and cd(4) et al.?

(Waiting for a "you read too far" from elsewhere in the system confused _me_...)

	Sean.