branch to build the firewall install.topic/unlabeled-1.1.1

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/perl-install/partition_table_dos.pm b/perl-install/partition_table_dos.pm
index 1b25a8f0b..e8ef57851 100644
--- a/perl-install/partition_table_dos.pm
+++ b/perl-install/partition_table_dos.pm
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package partition_table_dos;
+package partition_table_dos; # $Id$
 
 use diagnostics;
 use strict;
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use vars qw(@ISA);
 
 use common qw(:common :system :file);
 use partition_table_raw;
+use partition_table;
 use c;
 
 my @fields = qw(active start_head start_sec start_cyl type end_head end_sec end_cyl start size);
@@ -67,8 +68,15 @@ sub read($$) {
 sub write($$$;$) {
     my ($hd, $sector, $pt) = @_;
 
-    local *F; partition_table_raw::openit($hd, *F, 2) or die "error opening device $hd->{device} for writing";
-    c::lseek_sector(fileno(F), $sector, $offset) or return 0;
+    #- handle testing for writing partition table on file only!
+    local *F;
+    if ($::testing) {
+	my $file = "/tmp/partition_table_$hd->{device}";
+	open F, ">$file" or die "error opening test file $file";
+    } else {
+	partition_table_raw::openit($hd, *F, 2) or die "error opening device $hd->{device} for writing";
+        c::lseek_sector(fileno(F), $sector, $offset) or return 0;
+    }
 
     @$pt == $nb_primary or die "partition table does not have $nb_primary entries";
     foreach (@$pt) {