In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rohit Grover writes:
>Hello,
>
>This question is for the current maintainer(s) of ccd. The email
>listed in ccd.c is invalid.
>
>In ccdioctl, for the command CCDIOCSET, ccdgetdisklabel() is called
>after ccdinit(). In ccdgetdisklabel(), the raw partition's size is
>initialized (to a value computed by ccdinit()) before calling
>readdisklabel() which overwrites it with stuff read off the
>media. This results in the loss of the computed value for size. Could
>you please shed some light on the merits of this sequence of actions.

I think this code is largely overtaken by events, as recently as a
few days ago I ripped out the entire disklabel-fiddling code from
CCD and set it to use the systems default code instead.

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