Date: 02 Oct 1996 16:13:03 +0200 From: Martin Ostermann <ost@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnu/1707 Message-ID: <43wwx9mp3k.fsf@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Wed, 2 Oct 1996 06:05:55 -0700 (PDT) References: <199610021305.GAA03927@freefall.freebsd.org>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.freebsd.org> writes: > Synopsis: mkisofs gets signal 6 if some options are not supplied > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed > State-Changed-By: jkh > State-Changed-When: Wed Oct 2 06:03:10 PDT 1996 > State-Changed-Why: > This is not actually a bug as the calls to abort() are intentional - they're > deliberately flagging the fatal lack of a required argument. Admittedly, > this constitues rather crude error checking and should almost certainly > be implemented differently, but then that's true for all of mkisofs given > that the whole thing needs a rewrite badly. I'm going to close this as > a "feature" and comment that anyone wishing to rewrite mkisofs more than > has my blessing to do so. Hmm, maybe I wasn't clear enough, or I misunderstand something. I tested this more thoroughly now. You have to supply the options '-N' (omit_version_number) and '-d' (omit trailing dots) in order to get 'mkisofs' working. Both options are labeled in the man-page as "violating ISO9660" and "use with caution"! It's hard to believe that they are required, isn't it? Well, if that's correct anyway, I'd at least volunteer to update the man-page :-) Martin -- Martin Ostermann | mailto:ost@comnets.rwth-aachen.de Communication Networks | http://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de/~ost Aachen University of Technology | phoneto:++49/241/807917 Germany | faxto:++49/241/8890378
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