New -early_stdio_test option appendable_wo

libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/xorriso.1

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 .\" 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 "Mar 09, 2011"
+.TH XORRISO 1 "Mar 21, 2011"
 .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
 .\"
 .\" Some roff macros, for reference:
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ 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.
 .TP
-\fB\-early_stdio_test\fR "on"|"off"
+\fB\-early_stdio_test\fR "on"|"appendable_wo"|"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
@@ -882,6 +882,9 @@ writing is desired.
 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.
+.br
+Mode "appendable_wo" is like "on" with the additional property that
+non-empty write-only files are regarded as appendable rather than blank.
 .TP
 .B Inserting files into ISO image:
 .PP