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Re: [PATCH] fix an infinite loop with a corrupted pc partition table


From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix an infinite loop with a corrupted pc partition table
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:35:54 +0200

> Links backwards between extended partition entries are more likely to be
> due to data corruption than due to buggy partitoning tools.  OK, if you
> want, let's support up to 10 backward links.  That's more than enough.
I remembered a compact algorithm for detecting loops of such kind I
will implement it and submit a patch and we'll see how really compact
it is

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Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko

Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git




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