Bug#239111: Grub is shockingly bad code

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 06:57:55PM +0000, Robert McQueen wrote:
> 
> So no, it's nothing to do with where I'm trying to install GRUB to, the
> problem is the Debian patch to grub-install did xfs_freeze on my root
> filesystem and then did various crap including trying to write to the
> log file (and make a /boot/grub/default file, I think?),

It's not the log file.  Joeyh tried that (see the bug log).

I'm almost certain it's the fwrite() call in install_func.  I could be
wrong, but I still don't see why we would want to use xfs_freeze anyway.

And if we _really_ need xfs_freeze, it means we're doing something wrong.

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Robert Millan

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