[parted-devel] bug in parted 1.8.2 ??? [POINTED OUT]

[LarryT]

Jim,
I am happy to know that. But I need to wait for someone in Gentoo that 
makes this patch available ;)
So i will continue using parted-1.7.1 with GParted, till someone do it, 
or parted-1.8.3 comes out.

Thx anyway !
Larry

Jim Meyering wrote:
> LarryT <gparted at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I guess nobody really care of this problem, which i can understand...
>>     
>
> On the contrary!
>
>   
>> Nevertheless i found something new :
>> If running GParted live (compiled with parted-1.8.2) from usb drive, it
>> *NEVER* crashes !
>> And there is no cd in any cd device !
>> Is it possible to pass some command in parted so it doesnt scan
>> /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvdrom ?
>>
>> Excuse my naive question, but i am not a dev :-/
>>     
>
> That shouldn't be necessary, since just yesterday I fixed two bugs
> that would cause parted to crash when probing CD-ROMs.
>
> Here's the first message (there are more, with details and patches):
>     http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/1278
>
> Here are the two commits:
>     http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=commit;h=4ec984c14a7
>     http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=commit;h=6cc8f33d8e9
>   

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