Implemented a more reasonable solution for drive truncation with regular files

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.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
.TH XORRISO 1 "February 20, 2008"
.TH XORRISO 1 "February 21, 2008"
.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
.\"
.\" Some roff macros, for reference:
@ -1289,8 +1289,9 @@ persists until things happen like -commit, -rollback, -dev, or end of xorriso.
If no output file was chosen before or during a "mkisofs" option list, then
standard output (-outdev "-") will get into effect before pathspecs get
added. If -o points to a regular file, then it will be truncated to 0 bytes
before "mkisofs" options are processed. Directories and symbolic links
are no valid -o targets.
when finally writing begins. This truncation does not happen if the drive
is chosen by xorriso options before or after -as mkisofs.
Directories and symbolic links are no valid -o targets.
.br
Writing to stdout is possible only if -as "mkisofs" was among the start
arguments or if other start arguments pointed the output drive to