Re: [PATCH] fix an infinite loop with a corrupted pc partition table

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:24:31PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> +  loop = 0;
> +  while (loop < 100000)
> [...]
> +  if (loop == 100000)
> +    return grub_error (GRUB_ERR_BAD_PART_TABLE, "Corrupted partition table 
> found.");

What does this 100000 represent?  It looks like heuristic, but I'm missing
some context (I'm not familiar with extended partition layout).

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