Subject: Bug#3540: mkisofs stops if a problem occurs

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 96 01:12 BST

Martin Schulze writes ("Bug#3540: mkisofs stops if a problem occurs"):
> Package: mkisofs
> Version: 1.05-1
> 
> Mkisofs unfortunately stops if a permission problem occors on the
> source filesystem, like a directory isn't world executable or readable.
> 
> I would appreciate if it would report a warning and go on.  Some users
> (like myself) can't provide two times 650 MB space just for creating an
> cd image, instead they have to nfs-mount all the stuff somewhere.  If
> there is "confidential" stuff in a dirctory that should not occur on the
> cdrom then mkisofs suddenly stops.

If any change is to be made here the new behaviour should certainly be
optional.

You need to be able to rely on mkisofs having completed (with a zero
exit status) meaning that it has worked ...

Ian.