Re: [LinuxBIOS] [patch 3/5] Allow user to specify pathnames for create and add

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 23.07.2007 18:06, [e-mail] wrote:
> Add another field to the filename specified for create and add operations
> to specify the intended pathname for the blob.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse 
> Index: LinuxBIOSv3/util/lar/stream.c
> ===================================================================
> --- LinuxBIOSv3.orig/util/lar/stream.c	2007-07-23 09:47:04.000000000 -0600
> +++ LinuxBIOSv3/util/lar/stream.c	2007-07-23 09:51:39.000000000 -0600
> @@ -567,6 +569,20 @@
>    if (filename[0] == '.' && filename[1] == '/')
>    	filename += 2;
> pathname = strchr(filename, ':');
> if (pathname != NULL) {
>  *pathname = '\0';
>  pathname++;
>  if (!strlen(pathname)) {
>    err("Invalid pathname specified.\n");
>    return -1;
>  }
> }

We might want to add a notice to the man page/usage info that filenames
with a colon are invalid.

Regards
Carl-Daniel