hal 0.4.5 "It's going to go 100% failure in 72 hours." releas ed
Kay Sievers
kay.sievers at vrfy.org
Mon Jan 17 07:27:20 PST 2005
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 14:52 +0100, Schupp Roderich (extern) Com MD PD
SWP 2 CM MCH wrote:
> > I just upgraded hal (from 0.4.4-1) and noticed, that it
> > doesn't detect
> > the volume label of my usb external drive correctly anymore. I found
> > this bug, and this change seems to be the cause...
> >
> > Both mlabel and udev_volume_id show the correct label
> > ("ICYBOX"), but
> > hal uses "AD", which is pretty useless...
>
> The problem are VFAT extended entries in the root directory.
> The one-line change from 0.4.4 will erroneously take the
> first extended entry for the volume id.
> These extented entries are recognizable by attr = 0x0f
> (i.e. readonly + system + hidden + volume_id).
>
> I think there's also an off-by-one error in iterating over
> the directory entries.
Thanks a lot! I've applied it to CVS.
Thanks,
Kay
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