DD'ing IRIX Disks (was Re: [geeks] Apple vs. Sun)

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:48:42PM -0600, Jonathan C Patschke wrote:

> >It also sounds like it should be simple for someone to make a wrapper
> >library to fix most of the problems.
> 
> You're not going to be able to fix the semaphore bugs with a wrapper, I 
> think.  The bugs are in the function-calling mechanism, and the 
> semaphore calls go into the kernel and back out.  By that time, the 
> data is already corrupt.  The only way you could wrap around it would 
> be an inline-assembly routine that did the function call by hand.  I 
> suppose it would work, but it would be messy, and you'd still need to 
> modify the source for each dependent source file to make it work.

It seems to me there should be a better way.  Well, of course there is,
fix the compiler.  But barring that there still seems like there should
be a better way.  I don't have the time to fiddle with it though.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd