[4457] in Athena Bugs
bug in swapgeneric.c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Mar 8 03:20:56 1990
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 90 03:20:40 -0500
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@PIT-MANAGER.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Article 22029 in comp.unix.wizards:
In article <8340@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, muller@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Keith Muller) writes:
> In article <1990Mar6.140639.7408@uncecs.edu>, khj@uncecs.edu (Kenneth
H. Jacker) writes:
> > Autoconfig spotted most of our devices including the uda50, ra0 and our
> > DELUA. The kernel then asked for the "root device", and here's where a
> > problem arose. I tried "ra0*", "ra00*", and even "ra0", but each gave
> > the same error message:
> >
> > use hp%d, up%d, ra%d, rb%d, rl%d, hk%d or kra%d.
>
> A small bug in vax/swapgeneric.c
>
> Keith Muller
> University of California, San Diego
> muller@ucsd.edu
>
> *** bad/vax/swapgeneric.c Tue Jun 7 10:07:53 1988
> --- good/vax/swapgeneric.c Tue Feb 7 20:35:44 1989
> ***************
> *** 81,94 ****
> printf("root device? ");
> gets(name);
> for (gc = genericconf; gc->gc_driver; gc++)
> ! for (cp = name, gp = gc->gc_name; *cp == *gp; cp++, gp++)
> ! if (*gp == 0)
> goto gotit;
> printf(
> "use hp%%d, up%%d, ra%%d, rb%%d, rl%%d, hk%%d or kra%%d\n");
> goto retry;
> gotit:
> ! if (*cp < '0' || *cp > '9') {
> printf("bad/missing unit number\n");
> goto retry;
> }
> --- 81,94 ----
> printf("root device? ");
> gets(name);
> for (gc = genericconf; gc->gc_driver; gc++)
> ! for (cp = name, gp = gc->gc_name; *cp == *gp; cp++)
> ! if (*++gp == 0)
> goto gotit;
> printf(
> "use hp%%d, up%%d, ra%%d, rb%%d, rl%%d, hk%%d or kra%%d\n");
> goto retry;
> gotit:
> ! if (*++cp < '0' || *cp > '9') {
> printf("bad/missing unit number\n");
> goto retry;
> }
> ***************
> *** 96,101 ****
> --- 96,102 ----
> unit = 10 * unit + *cp++ - '0';
> if (*cp == '*')
> swaponroot++;
> + goto found;
> }
> for (gc = genericconf; gc->gc_driver; gc++) {
> #if NMBA > 0
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