Re: [patch] grub incorrectly identifies ext3 as fat

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:38:41PM +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 31.10.2009, 12:30 +0100 schrieb Robert Millan:
> > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:34:22AM +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, den 31.10.2009, 11:10 +0100 schrieb Robert Millan:
> > > > 
> > > > Felix, did you have some code to do make_path_relative_to_its_root()
> > > > in C?
> > > > Then we can re-enable the check in grub-probe, fixing this problem. 
> > > 
> > > Yes, the only missing thing is that you wanted to have the function
> > > imported from gnulib for the systems which don't have realpath()
> > 
> > But realpath() is posix AFAIK.  Or you mean the realpath(name, NULL) GNU
> > extension?
> > 
> 
> realpath(name,NULL) is POSIX too now.
> The only problem I know about is that we support mingw32, i.e. plain
> windows not cygwin.
> If we say we don't support this anymore then I don't think we need to
> import the gnulib function.

We can continue supporting it, but we don't have to put bugfixes on hold
because of it.

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