[parted-devel] [PATCH] More correct handling of the HeaderSize field in GPT labels

Otavio Salvador otavio at debian.org
Sun Jul 8 19:41:31 UTC 2007


"Matthew S. Harris" <mharris312 at gmail.com> writes:

> - Don't abort if the HeaderSize field value is bigger than our struct,
> since more fields may be defined in the future.

This, IMHO isn't right.

I personally prefer to exit and warn user that we aborted due a header
size issue then just ignore it.

Others?

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