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xorriso. By Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
Integrated sub project of libburnia-project.org but also published via:
http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/xorriso_eng.html
http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/xorriso-0.1.0.tar.gz
Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Thomas Schmitt, provided under GPL version 2.
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xorriso is a program which maps file objects from POSIX compliant
filesystems into Rock Ridge enhanced ISO 9660 filesystems and allows
session-wise manipulation of such filesystems. It can load the management
information of existing ISO images and it writes the session results to
optical media or to filesystem objects.

Currently it is only supported on Linux with kernels >= 2.4.

A special property of xorriso is that it needs neither an external ISO 9660
formatter program nor an external burn program for CD or DVD but rather
incorporates the libraries of libburnia-project.org .

By using this software you agree to the disclaimer at the end of this text
"This software is provided as is. There is no warranty implied and ..."


                   Compilation, First Glimpse, Installation

The most simple way to get xorriso is the xorriso standalone tarball.

Prerequisites:
The tarball contains anything that is needed except libc and libpthread.
libreadline and the libreadline-development headers will make dialog mode
more convenient but are not mandatory.

Obtain xorriso-0.1.0.tar.gz, take it to a directory of your choice and do:

    tar xzf xorriso-0.1.0.tar.gz
    cd xorriso-0.1.0

Within that directory execute:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr
    make

This will produce a binary named
    ./xorriso/xorriso

which you may strip to reduce it in size
    strip ./xorriso/xorriso

You may copy or move it to a directory where it can be found by the shell,
you may execute xorriso at the place where it was built, or you may execute
as superuser:
    make install

For general concepts, options and usage examples see
    man 1 xorriso

This man page is part of the tarball as
    xorriso/xorriso.1
It gets installed with "make install" but may also be place manually in the
./man1 directory below one of the the directories mentioned in environment
variable $MANPATH.
You may get a first glimpse by
    man ./xorriso/xorriso.1


                       Drives and Disk File Objects 

The user of xorriso needs rw-permission for the CD burner device.
A list of rw-accessible drives can be obtained by

    xorriso -devices

CD devices which offer no rw-permission are invisible to normal users.
The superuser should be able to see any usable drive and then set the
permissions as needed.

The output of  xorriso -devices  might look like

0  -dev '/dev/sr0' rwrw-- :  'TSSTcorp' 'CDDVDW SH-S203B' 
1  -dev '/dev/hda' rwrw-- :  'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8162B' 

Full and insecure enabling of both for everybody would look like
    chmod a+rw /dev/sr0 /dev/hda
This is equivalent to the traditional setup chmod a+x,u+s cdrecord.

I strongly discourage to run xorriso with setuid root or via sudo !
It is not checked for the necessary degree of hacker safety.

Consider to put all authorized users into group "floppy", to chgrp the
device file to that group and to disallow w-access to others.


A possible source of problems are hald or other automounters. 
If you can spot a process "hald-addon-storage" with the address of
your desired drive, then consider to kill it.

If you cannot get rid of the automounter that easily, try whether it helps
to always load the drive tray manually before starting a write run of
xorriso. Wait until the drive light is off.
Better try to unmount an eventually mounted media before a write run.


Besides true optical drives, xorriso can also address disk files as input or
output drives. The addresses of the disk files have to be preceded by "stdio:".
Like:
    xorriso -dev stdio:/tmp/pseudo_drive ...more arguments...



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Based on and sub project of:
libburnia-project.org
By Mario Danic           <mario.danic@gmail.com>,
   Vreixo Formoso        <metalpain2002@yahoo.es>
   Thomas Schmitt        <scdbackup@gmx.net>
Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Mario Danic, Vreixo Formoso, Thomas Schmitt.

libburnia-project.org is inspired by and in other components still containing
parts of old
Libburn. By Derek Foreman <derek@signalmarketing.com> and
            Ben Jansens <xor@orodu.net>
Copyright (C) 2002-2006  Derek Foreman and Ben Jansens