diff --git a/libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/README b/libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/README index 9b76343a..25a55cfd 100644 --- a/libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/README +++ b/libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/README @@ -123,9 +123,13 @@ 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:". +output drives. By default paths to files under /dev are accepted only if the +device represents a real optical drive. Other device files may be addressed +by prepending "stdio:" to the path. Like: - xorriso -dev stdio:/tmp/pseudo_drive ...more arguments... + xorriso -dev stdio:/dev/sdb ...more arguments... +This rule may be changed by xorriso option -drive_class. +Prefix "mmc:" causes a path to be accepted only if it is a real optical drive. Testing diff --git a/libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/xorriso_eng.html b/libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/xorriso_eng.html index 3a6a9022..cbeaba34 100644 --- a/libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/xorriso_eng.html +++ b/libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/xorriso_eng.html @@ -443,6 +443,8 @@ Enhancements towards previous stable version xorriso-0.2.8.pl01: