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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels?
From:       Bruce Evans <bde () zeta ! org ! au>
Date:       1996-07-31 8:37:27
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>All new FS's should expect to work on a "device" that is totally
>committed to the FS and looks like it starts at offset 0, and return
>EINVAL or EFAULT for out of range operations on the device.  If
>this were there now, then the MSDOSFS would be incapable of
>corrupting non-MSDOSFS disk areas with the current code.

It's always been there.  Broken code can only write outside the range
by corrupting the device number.

Bruce

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