[parted-devel] [PATCH 1/2] fdasd: geometry handling updated from upstream s390-tools

[Phil Susi]

On 9/15/2015 9:02 AM, Hendrik Brueckner wrote:
> Use bzero for initialization to make sure all struct members are
> properly cleared. Also changed partition list handling code to be
> more similar to upstream s390-tools fdasd.

>From the bzero(3):

CONFORMING TO
       4.3BSD.  This function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in
POSIX.1-2001): use memset(3) in new  pro‐
       grams.  POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of bzero().


Also, could someone clue me in ( possibly point me to some docs ) about
what this DASD stuff is and why it needs special ioctls to partition?