On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:20:52PM +0200, Stefan Krah wrote:
> Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > It would be great to have an implementation that is guaranteed to work
> > > with older kernels. The getsize() of e2fsprogs for example doesn't trust
> > > BLKGETSIZE64 for kernels < 2.6.
> >
> > OK, send patch :-)
>
> I find the e2fsprogs version more straightforward. This is a highly modified
> version of getsize() in e2fsprogs. The original is GPL (copyright T. Ts'o).
Thanks.
> +static int kernel_ge_2_6(void)
> +{
> + struct utsname ut;
> +
> + if (uname(&ut) < 0)
> + return 0;
> +
> + if ((ut.release[0] == '2') && (ut.release[1] == '.') &&
> + (ut.release[2] < '6') && (ut.release[3] == '.'))
> + return 0;
> +
> + return 1;
> +}
What about a new file lib/linux_version.c ?
See linux_version_code() in mkswap. I think it's more generic
implementation.
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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