From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Oct 3 03:30:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA19475 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 03:30:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA19456; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 03:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 03:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610031030.DAA19456@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: J Wunsch Subject: Re: gnu/1707: mkisofs gets signal 6 if some options are not supplied Reply-To: J Wunsch Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR gnu/1707; it has been noted by GNATS. From: J Wunsch To: ost@comnets.rwth-aachen.de Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnu/1707: mkisofs gets signal 6 if some options are not supplied Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 11:59:26 +0200 (MET DST) As Worm Management wrote: > >Description: > mkisofs fails, if certain options are not given. That's not what i would call a bug. The tool is missing several parts, and the author deliberately decided to call abort() (via assert()) for those parts that are not yet existent. Since mkisofs is actually third-party software, and is (to the best of my knowledge) not being actively maintained inside FreeBSD, i'd like to close the PR again. There's no use of keeping PRs open for things where we know we will never change them ourselves. Speak to the original author if you think you've got some contribution to the tool that will add the missing pieces. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)