Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:54:25 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Growisofs seg faults with DVD-RAM. Anybody else seen this? Message-ID: <20050730062425.GK75379@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050730055013.GA57362@localhost.local> References: <20050730055013.GA57362@localhost.local>
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--enGqbSaueFq5omEL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 29 July 2005 at 22:50:13 -0700, Carl Delsey wrote: > I was trying to use growisofs to write to a DVD-RAM and it kept > seg faulting. It worked fine with a DVD-R. > > I tracked the problem down to place in the code where growisofs > tries to perform an operation on a file handle it has already > closed. > > I've implemented a workaround already. The problem is, that by my > reckoning, this should affect anybody who is trying to use a DVD-RAM > (not DVD+RW) with FreeBSD, but I haven't found any references to the > problem on the net. My guess is that DVD-RAM isn't popular enough, and that people who have had problems with it haven't had the understanding to track the bug down. > I'm wondering if anybody else has seen this problem, and if you've > found some other workaround for it? Or alternatively, you still have > the problem and my patch would be useful to you. :-) Is this a workaround or a fix? The latter is obviously preferable. Also, does this only affect FreeBSD, or is it general? In the former case, contact the maintainer (mail address in the Makefile); in the latter, contact the project. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --enGqbSaueFq5omEL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC6x0ZIubykFB6QiMRAh3EAJ4q3TinfGqGxgHy221RK/AY/VILEACfWJ6t 5m1YaNsyC9ly6CH/gaL+rgE= =bp24 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --enGqbSaueFq5omEL--
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