[Libburn] libisofs patch

Ben Jansens xor@orodu.net
Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:44:49 -0500


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On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 09:37:25AM -0500, Todd Kulesza wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 08:46, Ben Jansens wrote:
> > Nice work :) I have one question. Why the empty sector before/after each
> > path table? I know mkisofs leaves a "blank" (with some self-gratuitous
> > comments in it) after the volume descriptors. But I found no reason for=
 this
> > in the iso9660 spec.
> >=20
>=20
> I thought mkisofs might have some reason for it; I've been comparing ISO
> images created with libisofs and mkisofs using a hex editor, and it's
> much easier to read them when all of the lines match up evenly.  I can
> take that bit out if you think it's unnecessary.  I didn't see anything
> about it one way or another in the ECMA-119 spec, not sure if it differs
> from iso9660 on this or not.

I was comparing iso's as well and it took a while to figure out what
mkisofs was doing with that sector. That was rather frustrating. :)

I don't see any reason to waste sectors just because Joerg wants to.

Ben

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