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Re: [patch] initializing parted from an application
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Neal H Walfield |
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Re: [patch] initializing parted from an application |
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Thu, 16 Aug 2001 00:37:49 +0200 |
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 07:48:17AM +1000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:55:24PM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> > Thus, I see two things that parted can do: It can either use the gcc
> > constructor/destructor extension or it can allow nested calls to the
> > ped_init/ped_done routines. Personally, I prefer the former.
>
> Is it possible to do ld magic to dynamically load/unload libparted?
> If, say RH use libparted in their installer, can they get rid of it
> after they've finished with partitioning?
Do you mean dlopen and family?
> Also, an exception might be thrown during initialization... there would
> be no way to set the exception handler before initialization. So,
> the vanilla default handler (writes to stdout) would have to do.
As initialization is really about allocating a few data strutures, I do
not think that this is an issue. But, if you want to look at
pathological cases, sure, you have a point.
> The only exceptions that should be thrown are bugs, or possibly errors
> loading modules, so that should be no problem...
Right.
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- [patch] initializing parted from an application, Neal H Walfield, 2001/08/14
- Re: [patch] initializing parted from an application, Andrew Clausen, 2001/08/15
- Re: [patch] initializing parted from an application, Neal H Walfield, 2001/08/15
- Re: [patch] initializing parted from an application, Andrew Clausen, 2001/08/15
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- Re: [patch] initializing parted from an application, Andrew Clausen, 2001/08/16
- Re: [patch] initializing parted from an application, Neal H Walfield, 2001/08/16
- Re: [patch] initializing parted from an application, Neal H Walfield, 2001/08/16
- Re: [patch] initializing parted from an application, Andrew Clausen, 2001/08/17