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Make grub-probe work with symbolic links under /dev/mapper as well

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as with real block devices.  The Linux world seems to be (at best)
in transition here, and GRUB shouldn't get caught in the middle.
* kern/emu/getroot.c (find_root_device): Follow symbolic links under
/dev/mapper.
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Colin Watson 2010-05-28 11:51:50 +01:00
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commit 15fb2ae896
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2010-05-28 Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
Make grub-probe work with symbolic links under /dev/mapper as well
as with real block devices. The Linux world seems to be (at best)
in transition here, and GRUB shouldn't get caught in the middle.
* kern/emu/getroot.c (find_root_device): Follow symbolic links under
/dev/mapper.

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@ -126,9 +126,20 @@ find_root_device (const char *dir, dev_t dev)
/* Ignore any error. */
continue;
if (S_ISLNK (st.st_mode))
/* Don't follow symbolic links. */
if (S_ISLNK (st.st_mode)) {
#ifdef __linux__
if (strcmp (dir, "mapper") == 0) {
/* Follow symbolic links under /dev/mapper/; the canonical name
may be something like /dev/dm-0, but the names under
/dev/mapper/ are more human-readable and so we prefer them if
we can get them. */
if (stat (ent->d_name, &st) < 0)
continue;
} else
#endif /* __linux__ */
/* Don't follow other symbolic links. */
continue;
}
if (S_ISDIR (st.st_mode))
{