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- From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: 0.97pl4 breaks SCSI extended partition code
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.011527.6848@colorado.edu>
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <3541@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <716098399snx@prism.demon.co.uk> <3555@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 01:15:27 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <3555@ra.nrl.navy.mil> eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale) writes:
- >-Eric
- >
- >*** sd.c.~1~ Tue Jul 28 19:31:23 1992
- >--- sd.c Wed Sep 9 17:18:37 1992
- >***************
- >*** 38,44 ****
- >
- > int NR_SD=0;
- > Scsi_Disk rscsi_disks[MAX_SD];
- >! static int sd_sizes[MAX_SD << 4];
- > static int this_count;
- > static int the_result;
- >
- >--- 38,44 ----
- >
- > int NR_SD=0;
- > Scsi_Disk rscsi_disks[MAX_SD];
- >! static int sd_sizes[MAX_SD << 4] = {0, };
- > static int this_count;
- > static int the_result;
- >
-
- Nailed by the @#$% boot strap loader. In 'C', BSS is zero filled. The
- net effect is that all non-auto, non-regiester variables are initialized
- to zero. Of course, since the Linux bootstrap loader doesn't specifically
- initialize BSS to zero, these variables aren't initialized to 0 like
- they should be, and it may fail.
- --
- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
- IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but
- marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
-