Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:36:44 +0100 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org> To: Amos Shapira <amoss@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers Mailing List) Subject: Re: Creating iso9660 filesystems Message-ID: <6446.803947004@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jun 1995 00:59:11 %2B0300." <199506232159.AA07484@picton.cs.huji.ac.il>
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You should look at the code. It causes cancer in laboratory rats and pattern baldness in middle-aged males. The "optional flags" are non-optional or cause weird results, you can confuse the heck out of it with long symlinks or filesystems with too many of them (it won't fail, it'll just produce a CDROM where the RockRidge entries are totally bogus!), etc etc etc. Thise code doesn't need to be fixed. What it needs is to be taken out and shot. Unfortunately, it's also the only game in town at the moment and you CAN use it if you know how to work-around all of its quirks, so use it we do. But work on it? Heh. Sorry, I value my sanity too much for that! Anyone expressing skepticism or feeling that I'm being too harsh here is more than free to look in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/mkisofs/ Be sure to notify a parent or close relative before going in there though - some people don't come back out. Jordan > "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org> wrote: > |It's already part of the tree. /usr/bin/mkisofs > | > |That said, both it and the Linux version (given that they're the same) > |are buggy as heck.. :-( > > Did you try to find out what's the problem with it? You seem to be > sitting in a place which lives on making CD-ROM's (freebsd.org == > cdrom.com, right?) so you must know the area, but I got the impression > that quite a few people use it to make working CD-ROM's. > > Cheers, > > --Amos > > --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for > 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen > Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England." > ISRAEL amoss@cs.huji.ac.il | -- Anonymous >
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