Re: [PATCH] blkid: support .ko.gz in modules.dep parser

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On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 09:13:56PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> The Linux kernel modules could be compressed, it means modules.dep
> parser in libblid has to support .ko.gz extension too.
> 
> (Note, I've talked about this problem with Jon Masters and his
> suggestion is to exec(/sbin/modinfo) rather than directly parse
> modules.dep. BTW, the modules.dep file is deprecated.)

Thanks, applied.

Running modinfo might be the better solution, but there's the standard
tricky business of forking and execing a program from a library (which
might have threads, or open file descriptors, etc.)

						- Ted
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