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

From: Chuck Swiger (chuck_at_pkix.net)
Date: 07/30/05

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To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>

    Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
    > 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.

    dvd+rw-tools doesn't support -RAM as well as other formats, in part because the
    {+,-}R(W) formats are much more common, in part because there are some pretty
    serious quirks in the older drives, but improvements would be welcome.

    >> 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.

    I'd be happy to review or test them first if you'd like, but any changes of
    this sort really ought to go upstream to Andy Polyakov <appro@fy.chalmers.se>
    or to the cdwrite mailing list at <cdwrite@other.debian.org>. 

    -- 
-Chuck
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