[parted-devel] GNU Parted Official Repository: Changes to 'master'

[Otavio Salvador]

"Debarshi Ray" <debarshi.ray at gmail.com> writes:

>> > A way to fix this is to create a deep copy duplicate of PedDeice **dev
>> > before doing ped_device_free_all. This would require a
>> > ped_device_duplicate function (similar to ped_disk_duplicate) to be
>> > written.
>
>> I got it. I think it would be nice to have it done and rightly
>> implemented.
>
> The easiest and best way to solve this is to do a ped_device_get(path)
> after the ped_device_free_all. This will reopen the device Parted was
> invoked with originally.

Ack

> However I have already written a ped_device_duplicate function, and
> for the sake of completeness of the API I feel libparted should have a
> function to create a duplicate of a device. After all we do have
> ped_disk_duplicate. The problem is that this function needs to be
> thoroughly tested and is not fit to be merged in 'stable-1.8.x'.

Please, do two commits so it would be easier to merge on stable later on.

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