Hi Robert,
you wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:02:37AM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
> > Two issues found in current CVS:
> >
> > 1. Booting a grub2-mkrescue floppy crashes if
> > "(memdisk)/boot/grub/grub.cfg" does not exist. This is because
> > grub_cpio_open does not set grub_errno if a file does not exist.
>
> I can't reproduce this with qemu:
>
> ./grub-mkrescue --pkglibdir=`pwd` --grub-mkimage=`pwd`/grub-mkimage
> --image-type=floppy /tmp/grub-rescue-floppy.img qemu -fda
> /tmp/grub-rescue-floppy.img -boot a
>
> is this supposed to be a spurious problem?
>
>
This depends on the (random?) contents of the "file" variable. If a
file does not exist, grub_cpio_open() returns GRUB_ERR_NONE but leaves
the file variable as is.
Accessing some non existent file ("cat (memdisk)/nosuchfile") should
eventually result in a crash.
Christian
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