Re: Ultrix compat_label: is loop useless?

Den 2024-01-10 kl. 18:31, skrev Mouse:
>>> What function does the loop serve?  It looks [pointless to me].
>> I looked at the loop and my impression is the same.
> Okay, so that substantially reduces the chance I just missed something.
>
>> I guess it was meant at some point to find an un-aligned disklabel,
>> or something like that.
> I suspect you are correct.  On various other ports, disksubr.c contains
> code that _does_ look for a disklabel all through the relevant sector.
> I suspect this was copied, changed, and never cleaned up.  (I'm doing
> an experiment involving disklabels, involving going through all ports
> on the version I'm using, looking at most disklabel code, so I am in a
> position to be confident that other ports have relatively similar code
> that does loop.)
This code comes from pmax port around 1994.

-- Ragge