#include <hallo.h> * Joerg Schilling [Sun, Jul 09 2006, 01:41:04AM]: > Hi, > > your problem is caused by the fact that the Linux kernel is made incompatible > to itself faster than Debian updates cdrtools (Debian did not update cdrtools > for more than 14 months).
The last thing has another reasons and not some assumed "Linux kernel incompatibilites with itself". You know the reasons, stop claiming something else please. > Just use a recent _original_ cdrtools version (that knows about Linux > self-incompatibilities) from: > > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ > > and install it suid root. It does not have the problems you mention. ^^^^^^^^^ That is not the scenario we are talking about. The original version fails as well. It works as root, sure. It does NOT work as NON-ROOT. And it does not need to be root after simple modifications. We can get back to this discussion when you start testing your software on supported plattforms in real-live scenarios (ie. root or non-root, using the popular && stable kernel series and natural ways to access devices). > NOTE: Be careful and do not redistribute the patch you received from Eduard > Bloch. Eduard is not a programmer and he does not understand how cdrecord > works. I consider such statements to be close to a libel. The first thing is bullshit and the second is half-true. I am CS student and beginning the diploma thesis RSN, and I coded lots of C/C++ code in the past years. And I can follow the control flow in your code long enough to find where it does unneccessary things that the kernel does not allow. YOU YOURSELF marked the suspicious code telling doubts about its usefullness. If you think that is a kernel issue then it is a very natural issue, there is no point in giving non-root users more permissions than they need. > His patch does not do the right thing [1] and is illegal because it tries to > change > the license of the code although Eduard is not the copyright holder of the > code! That was a patch for the version of cdrtools that YOU YOURSELF have distributed under the GPL license. You know pretty well that it permits modifications. This patch does not even change the library interfaces and repairs broken things. I cannot understand what you are talking about. [ deleted rest of the blurb repeating same claims about illegality of patches ] Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
