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-rw-r--r--disk-utils/fdformat.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/fdformat.c b/disk-utils/fdformat.c
index e7d43da8f..66e1bb90d 100644
--- a/disk-utils/fdformat.c
+++ b/disk-utils/fdformat.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <unistd.h>
#include "c.h"
+#include "blkdev.h"
#include "strutils.h"
#include "closestream.h"
#include "nls.h"
@@ -221,10 +222,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
if (!S_ISBLK(st.st_mode))
/* do not test major - perhaps this was an USB floppy */
errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("%s: not a block device"), argv[0]);
- if (access(argv[0], W_OK) < 0)
- err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("cannot access file %s"), argv[0]);
-
- ctrl = open(argv[0], O_RDWR);
+ ctrl = open_blkdev_or_file(&st, argv[0], O_RDWR);
if (ctrl < 0)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("cannot open %s"), argv[0]);
if (ioctl(ctrl, FDGETPRM, (long) &param) < 0)