If you make mkisofs completely "correct", it becomes rather useless.
The default behavior of mkisofs happens to also be the default behavior of tar; that is, tar continues merrily on its way after an error (at least GNU tar does). There are good reasons to allow a process that takes a long time to complete, such as mkisofs, to continue after an error is encountered rather than just quit. A command line argument to say "quit on error" would be fine, but my vote is to keep the default behavior the way it is. On Monday 13 May 2002 02:24 pm, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:36:01PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 13 22:18:40 2002 > > > > > >On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:13:58PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > > >> On Mon, 13 May 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > >> > It prints: "File %s is too large - ignoring\n" > > >> > It is not possible to put files > 2 GB into a ISO-9660 fs. > > >> > > >> What about UDF? > > > > > >Just curring symptoms. If UDF than NO ISO at all. But mkisofs can't > > >switch of ISO. So i don't use UDF. > > > > All UDF media should include ISO-9660. mkisofs is correct. > > You should make mkisofs more correct. It should refuse to make > incompatible disc by default. Currently it says nothing when filenames > aren't compatible and/or filenames are to long. (Or "-r" and/or "-J" > switches that behaviour off. That are the only options i use) > > I grep for the "print" myself and put the "exit 1" behind it myself. But > i would prefer to not do that with every release in the future. I'm OK > with a commandline-option i can put into my image-creation script. (And > i think my other would prefer such on option, or mkisofs to die when i > skips files. I think most people didn't notice that behaviour because > not so many use DVD-R currently. Like the "You have 10 seconds left" in > cdrecord that did "exit 0" in the past, when you pressed "Control-C". > Nobody noticed that, but my script just wippes the image when cdrecord > does an "exit 0", so i lost an image (I had the luck that "Midnight > Commander" could restore that file. But that took 24 hours) Same with my > image-creation script. It BELIEVES mkisofs. When mkisofs says > "everything OK", then everything is OK and the source-files can be > wipped. This behaviour destroys that "trust" situation.) > > > > > > > Bis denn -- Seth Kurtzberg MIS Corp. Office: (480) 661-1849 Fax: (480) 614-8909 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pager: 888-605-9296 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
