On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 03:26:36PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> On 3/24/2014 3:01 PM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > OK thanks. But this then indicates that cfdisk should be removed
> > entirely or replaced by a script which says "cfdisk has been
> > removed due to it being unmaintained and error-ridden. Please use
> > ... instead".
>
> Then people would be rightly upset that they couldn't use it when they
> don't care about the bugs.
Perhaps a half-way house, catering for people like that and for people
like me who were unaware of these bugs which could severely hamper
performance: have a wrapper script something like the following. It's
a bit ugly, but it might protect unaware people like myself, without
causing too much trouble for others.
#!/bin/sh
if [ "$1" = "--run" ]
then
shift
exec /sbin/cfdisk.real "$@"
elif ! [ -t 0 ]
then
exec /sbin/cfdisk.real "$@"
else
echo "cfdisk currently has several serious bugs, especially with respect
to" >&2
echo "advanced format disks, blah and blah." >&2
echo "If you really wish to use it, either run the command" >&2
echo "cfdisk --act $*" >&2
echo "or: cfdisk.real $*" >&2
exit 1
fi
> > Does sfdisk also need removing for similar reasons?
>
> I don't think so.
OK.
> > Should this become an important bug?
>
> It doesn't seem all that important, and it wouldn't make much
> difference anyway. I believe upstream is working on it already, but
> it will be a bit before it's ready.
It might be worth putting something in place in the interim.
But it's your call, obviously.
Julian
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