Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

From: Joerg Schilling
Date: Mon Feb 27 2006 - 06:31:48 EST


Christian Neumair <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 21.02.2006, 11:36 +0100 schrieb Joerg Schilling:
> > I did write some time ago that the most probable cause for the Linux
> > bug is that
> > Linux is sending uninitialized data for the amount of bytes that pad
> > to 12 byte.
>
> How are they supposed to be filled? I don't have a clue on the low-level
> stuff involved, but isn't this as simple as initializing the rest of the
> c array in idescsi_pc_t to 0?

They are supposed to be filled with null chars.

Jörg

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