>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 29 12:43:47 2002
>>I found a CD that looks a bit strange.
>>
>>Is there anybody who really knows Joliet and can help?
>>
>>The SVD of the CD contains escape sequences that I would call buggy:
>>
>>The first bytes are: 0: '%' 1: '/' 2: 'E' 3: ' '
>Certainly looks like a bad escape sequence - for UCS-2 Level 3 it should be:
>%\E
Fillowed by a null byte ?!
>>and from esc[3] .. esc[31] all characters are spaces instead of nuls.
>>
>> Mkisofs uses nuls.
>As the Joliet spec states that the escape sequences conform to the ISO9660
>standard for the Supplementary Volume Descriptor (section 8.5.6), then the
>remaining bytes should be nulls.
This is how I did understannd it. I only wanted to be 100% sure (see below).
>>In addition, the Joliet repesentations of the filenames look strange:
>>
>>d--------- 0 0 0 2048 Feb 5 2002 [ 420] .
>>d--------- 0 0 0 8192 Feb 5 2002 [ 344] ..
>>---------- 0 0 0 4304 Dec 20 2001 [ 159908] ipc.h.html;1
>>---------- 0 0 0 136 Dec 12 2001 [ 159907] list.;1
>...
>>
>> Mkisofs never adds ';1' to joliet filenames.
>I had an email exchange with Eric about this when he first added Joliet
>to mkisofs - the Joliet spec (which is written as if it were an addition
>to the ISO9660 standard) states that:
>"Simply put, SEPARATOR 1 and SEPARATOR 2 shall be expanded to 16-bits".
>SEPARATOR 2 is ';' - which is used signify the version number of a file.
Thank you for the background. I see that you interpret everything similar to
me.
The reason why I asked this is that the CD is carrying the POSIX.1-2001
standard ;-)
J�rg
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