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  1. Bug #7825
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 7825

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Herbert Xu (herbert-gondor) wrote :

(In reply to comment #23)
> The problem here is that cdrom_open_write fails because the drive in
> question doesn't meet it's criteria, and we fall of the end of the
> if-then-else mess.

Thanks for testing. Unfortunately it looks like the bug is still in growisofs.

What it should do is open an fd specifically for ioctls. Then it can open it
with O_NONBLOCK which bypasses the above check.