Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:19:59 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
cc: DJGPP-WORKERS <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: getmntent and bogus disk labels
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On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> > Did you notice that `getmntent' on plain DOS returns a bogus filesystem
> > name for floppies that were written with LFN support?  Well, the 
> 
> How does this problem look? Any chance that the labels look like "Aw",
> "Ad" or similarly?

Exactly.

> Reason I ask is df says "Aw" instead of "DriveD" and DOZE's label
> program can't delete the label...

Because that's not a label, but a part of an LFN entry, and it has
hidden and system attributes set, so I guess LABEL panics.

Please try the patch I sent (compile mntent.c with -DTEST and see what
the test program prints for the same floppy where those funny labels
show).  The patched version works for me, but additional testing will
never hurt ;-).