Re: stat for FreeBSD

[Andrey Shuvikov]

--- On Sat, 2/7/09, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Robert Millan <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: stat for FreeBSD
> To: "The development of GRUB 2" <address@hidden>
> Date: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 2:39 PM
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:24:41AM -0800, Andrey Shuvikov
> wrote:
> > I don't have much experience developing under
> FreeBSD but this call taken from the fdisk source code seems
> to work (see attachment also):
> > 
> > error = ioctl(fd, DIOCGMEDIASIZE, &size);
> 
> This seems fine.  Could you provide a tested patch?
> 
> -- 
> Robert Millan
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Here is the patch to make grub-probe working on FreeBSD. It includes this
ioctl call, FreeBSD device names parsing, and accounts for the fact that disk 
drives are character devices under FreeBSD.

Regards,
Andrey Shuvikov

grub_probe_freebsd.patch
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