sfdisk can now do everything with GPT that sgdisk was needed for
before. In particular we are able to reimplement the following
functions using sfdisk:
- part_set_disk_guid (replace with sfdisk --disk-id)
- part_get_disk_guid
- part_set_disk_guid_random
- part_set_gpt_attributes (sfdisk --part-attrs)
- part_get_gpt_attributes
- part_set_gpt_guid (sfdisk --part-uuid)
- part_get_gpt_guid
- part_set_gpt_type (sfdisk --part-type)
- part_get_gpt_type
This allows us to drop the requirement for gdisk in many cases.
There is only one API remaining which requires gdisk, part_expand_gpt,
which we do not use in our tools. In a prior commit I already moved
this solitary function to a new source file (daemon/gdisk.c).
Fixes: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-35998
Run this command across the source:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/(20[012][0-9])-20[12][012]/$1-2023/g' `git ls-files`
and remove changes to po{,-docs}/*.po{,t} (these will be regenerated
later when we run 'make dist').
Add an API to return the build ID of the guest. This to allow a
future change to be able to distinguish between Windows 10 and Windows 11
which can only be done using the build ID.
For Windows we can read the CurrentBuildNumber key from the registry.
For Linux there happens to be a BUILD_ID field in /etc/os-release.
I've never seen a Linux distro that actually uses this.
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
I saw several Windows disk images which contains strange registry entry
for mapped drives:
"\\DosDevices\\Y:"=hex(3):00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
Which is decoded something like diskID = 0x0, partition starts at 0
bytes offset from the start of the disk. In addition to a Windows disk
image, I have attached dummy disk and made xfs file system on a whole
device without partitioning it. I mount xfs file system to a "/" and
then mkdir and mount other found file systems inside (/fs1, /fs2 etc.).
When we decode drive mappings we are looking for a disk with ID 0x0 (it
is 4 bytes somewhere LBA0). It is appeared that dummy non-partitioned
disk with xfs file system has zeros by offset where diskID is expected
to be). So the disk is considered as a candidate to search for
partition at offset 0. part-list command (and "parted" which is used
under the hood) reports there is 1 partition on "dummy" disk which
starts exactly at offset 0. And thus dummy device name and partition
number are simply concatenated together and corresponding drive mapping
is returned: Y => /dev/sdX1. But /dev/sdX1 is not existing block
device.
No matter either it is a bug in "parted" (or it works this way
by-design), let's protect ourself from this situation: in addition we
look for msdos partition table on a disk before making any further
assumptions.
However some existing functions had names which shadowed existing
functions in the List module, so I had to rename them:
assoc -> List.assoc_lbl
append -> List.push_back_list
prepend -> List.push_front_list
This is an extension of the previous commit.
This safe wrapper around Unix.openfile ensures that exceptions
escaping cannot leave unclosed files.
There are only a few places in the code where this wrapper can be used
currently. There are other occurences of Unix.openfile but they are
not suitable for replacement.
