New option -early_drive_test

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@ -873,6 +873,16 @@ Allow for writing only the usage of MMC optical drives. Disallow
to write the result into files of nearly arbitrary type.
Once set, this command cannot be revoked.
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\fB\-early_stdio_test\fR "on"|"off"
If enabled by "on" then regular files and block devices get tested for
effective access permissions. This implies to try opening those files for
writing, which otherwise will happen only later and only if actual
writing is desired.
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The test result is used for classifying the pseudo drives as overwriteable,
read-only, write-only, or uselessly empty. This may lead to earlier detection
of severe problems, and may avoid some less severe error events.
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.B Inserting files into ISO image:
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The following commands expect file addresses of two kinds:
@ -2867,9 +2877,9 @@ if the threshold of option -abort_on allows this.
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"failure" aborts image tree reading on first event of at least SORRY.
It issues an own FAILURE event.
This is the default.
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"fatal" acts like "failure" but issues the own event as FATAL.
This is the default.
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With occasion "file_extraction" there are three behaviors:
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