[syslinux] A Few Syslinux 5.00-pre9 Bugs

[Matt Fleming]

On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 00:54 -0400, Shao Miller wrote:
> Just a few bug-reports, before I forget:
> 
> - A Windows installer bug for 4.06 and presumably 5.00-pre9 whereby the ADV
> contains backslashes.  Reproduced with: syslinux.exe --directory \two\dirs
> e:

Thanks, I'm aware of this one.

> - An open() (?) bug for 4.06 and presumably 5.00-pre9 whereby the filename
> /ubcd/custom/syslinux-5.00-pre9/com32/gplinclude/acpi/facs.h fails to open()
> after 134 iterations in a loop where it's closed after each open()  Variant
> was ISOLINUX.

Do you have a reproducible testcase you could send me? Sounds like some
kind of resource leak.

> - A PXELINUX 5.00-pre9 bug whereby linux.c32 fails to load a 70 MB file with
> 1024 MiB RAM (in QEmu).  The same scenario with ISOLINUX is fine.  Possibly
> worth noting is that this was iPXE (ipxe.pxe) -> PXELINUX 5.00-pre9 using
> HTTP for the large file.  (TFTP untested.)

Presumably this is the malloc bug you fixed?

> - A bug for 4.06 and presumably 5.00-pre9 whereby chain.c32 can no longer
> chain Win98 DOS with: hd0,1 msdos=io.sys  Chaining boot-sector files made by
> SYS.COM is fine.

Do you have a testcase for this?

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center