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From: jcm@mtunb.ATT.COM (was-John McMillan)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Looks like a bug in the 7300 disk driver
Message-ID: <1365@mtunb.ATT.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 89 23:58:06 GMT
References: <813@ttrde.UUCP> <1360@mtunb.ATT.COM> <983@mstar.UUCP>
Reply-To: jcm@mtunb.UUCP (was-John McMillan)
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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In article <983@mstar.UUCP> karl@mstar.UUCP (Karl Fox) writes:
>Come on, folks!  If you provide a 4-byte buffer to read, it is a BUG to
>write 512 bytes to it!  Sure, the raw disk device has size limitations,
>but it should never round up.  The driver should probably return EINVAL
>if the size isn't a multiple of 512.

	OK.  I agree.  But I live in terror of making this patch and
	finding it breaks someone's code.

jc mcmillan