Bug 162684 - follow a possible link to a device special file
Summary: follow a possible link to a device special file
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mkinitrd
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-07-07 17:02 UTC by Peter Warasin
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2006-05-05 20:50:02 UTC
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patch which adds that behaviour (775 bytes, patch)
2005-07-07 17:02 UTC, Peter Warasin 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Peter Warasin 2005-07-07 17:02:49 UTC 
Description of problem:
this enhancement uses readlink to determine the real device special file in
new-kernel-pkg. one may have links as for example IPCop unfortuately does.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.1.18

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Comment 1 Peter Warasin 2005-07-07 17:02:49 UTC 
Created attachment 116482 [details]
patch which adds that behaviour
Comment 2 Peter Warasin 2005-07-07 17:04:09 UTC 
enhancement was needed for www.efw.it and has been developed by www.endian.it
Comment 3 Peter Jones 2006-02-03 21:56:00 UTC 
Is this still a problem with mkinitrd-5.0.20 ?
Comment 4 John Thacker 2006-05-05 20:50:02 UTC 
Closing due to lack of response.
Note that FC3 is the responsibility of Fedora Legacy now.
If this problem occurs on FC4 or FC5, please reopen.
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