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?
> 
> -- 
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Here is the patch against the latest revision 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. 
Below is the reply from FSF:

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Hello Andrey,

Your GRUB2 assignment/disclaimer process with the FSF is currently
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email immediately following this one.

Please remember to let us know when your employment status changes, as
this may effect your assignment status.

Thank you for your contribution!

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Here's how the contributor answered the question, “ Did you copy any
files or text written by someone else in these changes?”

Copied some lines from the same project, then modified.

[Which files have you changed so far, and which new files have you written
so far?]

include/grub/util/getroot.h
util/grub-probe.c
util/getroot.c
util/hostdisk.c 
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Regards,
Andrey Shuvikov

grub_probe_freebsd.patch
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