From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 25 17:21:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E7716A47B for ; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 17:21:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5785013C47A for ; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 17:21:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kBPH0i0h054461; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:00:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <459003B9.5040201@samsco.org> Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 12:00:41 -0500 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "O. Hartmann" References: <20061221092717.A6431@xorpc.icir.org> <20061222073857.GA10704@tmn.ru> <20061225165735.M22401@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <458FF48A.3010802@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <458FF48A.3010802@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: Dmitry Pryanishnikov , Luigi Rizzo , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: burncd 'blank' not terminating ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 17:21:02 -0000 O. Hartmann wrote: > Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: >> Hello! >> >> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Sergey N. Voronkov wrote: >>>> just noticed, after upgrading to 6.2RC1, that >>>> >>>> luigi# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -v blank >>>> blanking CD, please wait.. >>>> >>>> stays there forever. Eventually i gave up and ctrl-C and >>>> the application terminates, and i was able to write to >>>> the disk a valid image, which probably means that the >>>> disk had been blanked. >> Yes, well known RELENG_4 -> 6 (maybe even 5) regression. Same here with >> >> acd0: CDRW at ata1-master UDMA33 >> >> Worked fine under RELENG_4, fails to wait for completion under RELENG_6. >> >>> See my report: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/95344 >>> And: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/104270 >>> >>> The last one contain a fix. >> This fix doesn't help me. >> >>> Serg. >>> >>> P.S.: Don't use burncd. Use cdrecord! >> IMHO it isn't correct approach to avoid use of the tool _instead_ of >> fixing >> it. This way, all your tools will be broken one day ;) >> >> Sincerely, Dmitry > Since this is a very old and well known issue, and it seems there is no > one left solcing/developing this tool, it should be removed from the > source tree for the time it is to said broken. > burncd had some nice advantages over cdrecord: it came from the BSD > tree, it had capabilities for burning DVD+RW images. Disadvantage was > the limitation to ATA interface. > > Someone should suggest the stripp off the sources via PR? > > Regards, > Oliver > There are times when 'ls' doesn't work quite right for me. I propose removing that from the FreeBSD tree ASAP. In fact, anything that hasn't had a commit in a year should be removed, since it is obviously abandoned, not working, and useless. Obviously. Or, we can not say silly things like, "you didn't fix X for me, so it should be removed from the FreeBSD tree." Scott