perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm


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package partition_table_empty; # $Id$

#- this is a mainly dummy partition table. If we find it's empty, we just call -
#- zero_MBR which will take care of bless'ing us to the partition table type best
#- suited


use diagnostics;
use strict;
use vars qw(@ISA);

@ISA = qw(partition_table_raw);

use common;
use partition_table_raw;
use partition_table;
use c;


sub read($$) {
    my ($hd, $sector) = @_;
    my $tmp;

    my $magic = "\0" x 512;

    local *F; partition_table_raw::openit($hd, *F) or die "failed to open device";
    c::lseek_sector(fileno(F), $sector, 0) or die "reading of partition in sector $sector failed";

    #- check magic number
    sysread F, $tmp, length $magic or die "error reading magic number";
    $tmp eq $magic or die "bad magic number";

    partition_table_raw::zero_MBR($hd);

    $hd->{primary}{raw};
}

1;