Re: Growisofs seg faults with DVD-RAM. Anybody else seen this?

From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey (grog_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 07/30/05

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    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 

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