From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 25 20:13:43 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 8D7A216A416 for ; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 20:13:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr17.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr17.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264A613C47C for ; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 20:13:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp-vbr17.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBPK0CLr060913; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 21:00:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id kBPK0Clr026646; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 21:00:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.6/Submit) id kBPK0BR1026645; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 21:00:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb) Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 21:00:11 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20061225200011.GA26613@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20061221092717.A6431@xorpc.icir.org> <20061222073857.GA10704@tmn.ru> <20061225165735.M22401@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <458FF48A.3010802@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <459003B9.5040201@samsco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <459003B9.5040201@samsco.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: Dmitry Pryanishnikov , Luigi Rizzo , "O. Hartmann" , 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 20:13:43 -0000 On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 12:00:41PM -0500, Scott Long wrote.. > 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 the kernel, that sometimes also gives us problems ;) > 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 -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org