Tagged release of libisoburn 0.2.8

README

@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@
 libisoburn. By Vreixo Formoso <metalpain2002@yahoo.es> 
             and Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
 Integrated sub project of libburnia-project.org.
-http://files.libburnia-project.org/releases/libisoburn-0.2.4.pl00.tar.gz
+http://files.libburnia-project.org/releases/libisoburn-0.2.8.pl00.tar.gz
 Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Vreixo Formoso, Thomas Schmitt.
 Provided under GPL version 2.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 libisoburn is a frontend for libraries libburn and libisofs which enables
-creation and expansion of ISO-9660 filesystems on all CD/DVD media supported
+creation and expansion of ISO-9660 filesystems on all CD/DVD/BD media supported
 by libburn. This includes media like DVD+RW, which do not support multi-session
 management on media level and even plain disk files or block devices.
 
@@ -26,18 +26,18 @@ By using this software you agree to the disclaimer at the end of this text:
 
                    Compilation, First Glimpse, Installation
 
-Dynamic library and compile time header requirements for libisoburn-0.2.4 :
-- libburn.so.4  , version libburn-0.5.2 or higher
-- libisofs.so.6 , version libisofs-0.6.6 or higher
+Dynamic library and compile time header requirements for libisoburn-0.2.8 :
+- libburn.so.4  , version libburn-0.5.4 or higher
+- libisofs.so.6 , version libisofs-0.6.10 or higher
 libisoburn and xorriso will not start with libraries which are older than their
 headers seen at compile time. So compile in the oldest possible installation
 setup unless you have reason to enforce a newer bug fix level.
 
-Obtain libisoburn-0.2.4.pl00.tar.gz, take it to a directory of your choice
+Obtain libisoburn-0.2.8.pl00.tar.gz, take it to a directory of your choice
 and do:
 
-    tar xzf libisoburn-0.2.4.pl00.tar.gz
-    cd libisoburn-0.2.4
+    tar xzf libisoburn-0.2.8.pl00.tar.gz
+    cd libisoburn-0.2.8
 
 Within that directory execute:
 
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ as well as
 
                               xorriso
 
-libisoburn includes a command line and dialog application named xorriso,
+libisoburn comes with a command line and dialog application named xorriso,
 which offers a substantial part of libisoburn features to shell scripts and
 users. Its file xorriso/README describes a standalone tarball as first
 preference for statically linked xorriso installation.
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ Several alias links point to the xorriso binary:
     xorrecord  starts xorriso with -as cdrecord emulation already enabled
     osirrox    starts with -osirrox image-to-disk copying already enabled
 
+By default xorriso will depend on libreadline if the readline-dev headers
+are present. This dependcy can be avoided by running
+    ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-libreadline
+    make clean ; make
+Never omit the "make clean" command after switching libreadline enabling.
+
 
                        Drives and Disk File Objects 
 

configure.ac

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT([libisoburn], [0.2.4], [http://libburnia-project.org])
+AC_INIT([libisoburn], [0.2.8], [http://libburnia-project.org])
 AC_PREREQ([2.50])
 dnl AC_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h])	
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ dnl
 dnl These three are only copies to provide libtool with unused LT_RELEASE
 ISOBURN_MAJOR_VERSION=0
 ISOBURN_MINOR_VERSION=2
-ISOBURN_MICRO_VERSION=4
+ISOBURN_MICRO_VERSION=8
 dnl ISOBURN_VERSION=$ISOBURN_MAJOR_VERSION.$ISOBURN_MINOR_VERSION.$ISOBURN_MICRO_VERSION
  
 AC_SUBST(ISOBURN_MAJOR_VERSION)
@@ -33,16 +33,16 @@ dnl Libtool versioning
 dnl Generate libisoburn.so.1.x.y
 dnl SONAME will become LT_CURRENT - LT_AGE
 dnl 
-dnl ts A80824
-dnl This is the release version 0.2.4 = libisoburn.so.1.13.0
+dnl ts A80920
+dnl This is the release version 0.2.8 = libisoburn.so.1.17.0
 dnl ### This is the development version after above stable release
 dnl LT_CURRENT++, LT_AGE++ have not happened happened yet.
 dnl ### LT_CURRENT++, LT_AGE++ has happened meanwhile.
 dnl
-dnl SONAME = 14 - 13 = 1 . Library name = libisoburn.so.1.13.0
+dnl SONAME = 18 - 17 = 1 . Library name = libisoburn.so.1.17.0
 LT_RELEASE=$ISOBURN_MAJOR_VERSION.$ISOBURN_MINOR_VERSION
-LT_CURRENT=14
-LT_AGE=13
+LT_CURRENT=18
+LT_AGE=17
 LT_REVISION=0
 LT_CURRENT_MINUS_AGE=`expr $LT_CURRENT - $LT_AGE`
 
@@ -86,22 +86,28 @@ AC_SUBST(ARCH)
 AC_SUBST(LIBBURN_ARCH_LIBS)
 
 
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(libreadline,
+[  --enable-libreadline    Enable use of libreadline by xorriso, default=yes],
+               , enable_libreadline=yes)
+if test x$enable_libreadline = xyes; then
 dnl Check whether there is readline-devel and readline-runtime.
 dnl If not, erase this macro which would enable use of readline(),add_history()
-READLINE_DEF="-DXorriso_with_readlinE"
+    READLINE_DEF="-DXorriso_with_readlinE"
 dnl The empty yes case obviously causes -lreadline to be linked
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(readline/readline.h, AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, readline, , READLINE_DEF= ), READLINE_DEF= )
+    AC_CHECK_HEADER(readline/readline.h, AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, readline, , READLINE_DEF= ), READLINE_DEF= )
 dnl The X= in the yes case prevents that -lreadline gets linked twice
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(readline/history.h, AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, add_history, X= , READLINE_DEF= ), READLINE_DEF= )
+    AC_CHECK_HEADER(readline/history.h, AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, add_history, X= , READLINE_DEF= ), READLINE_DEF= )
+else
+    READLINE_DEF=
+fi
 AC_SUBST(READLINE_DEF)
 
-
 AC_CHECK_HEADER(libburn/libburn.h)
 AC_CHECK_HEADER(libisofs/libisofs.h)
 
 dnl Check for proper library versions
-LIBBURN_REQUIRED=0.5.2
-LIBISOFS_REQUIRED=0.6.6
+LIBBURN_REQUIRED=0.5.4
+LIBISOFS_REQUIRED=0.6.10
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBBURN, libburn-1 >= $LIBBURN_REQUIRED)
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBISOFS, libisofs-1 >= $LIBISOFS_REQUIRED)
 

doc/doxygen.conf.in

@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ WARN_LOGFILE           =
 # directories like "/usr/src/myproject". Separate the files or directories 
 # with spaces.
 
-INPUT                  = libburn \
+INPUT                  = libisoburn \
                          doc \
                          test
 
@@ -495,9 +495,7 @@ INPUT_ENCODING         = UTF-8
 # *.c *.cc *.cxx *.cpp *.c++ *.java *.ii *.ixx *.ipp *.i++ *.inl *.h *.hh *.hxx 
 # *.hpp *.h++ *.idl *.odl *.cs *.php *.php3 *.inc *.m *.mm *.py
 
-FILE_PATTERNS          = libburn.h \
-                         comments \
-                         libburner.c
+FILE_PATTERNS          = 
 
 # The RECURSIVE tag can be used to turn specify whether or not subdirectories 
 # should be searched for input files as well. Possible values are YES and NO. 

libisoburn/burn_wrap.c

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ extern void *libisoburn_default_msgs_submit_handle;
 extern int libisoburn_default_msgs_submit_flag;
 
 
-int isoburn_emulate_toc(struct burn_drive *d, int flag);
+static int isoburn_emulate_toc(struct burn_drive *d, int flag);
 
 
 int isoburn_initialize(char msg[1024], int flag)
@@ -263,6 +263,7 @@ int isoburn_is_intermediate_dvd_rw(struct burn_drive *d, int flag)
     @param flag bit0= pretent blank on overwriteable media
                 bit3= if the drive reports a -ROM profile then try to read 
                       table of content by scanning for ISO image headers.
+                bit4= do not emulate TOC on overwriteable media
 */ 
 static int isoburn_welcome_media(struct isoburn **o, struct burn_drive *d,
                                  int flag)
@@ -312,11 +313,13 @@ static int isoburn_welcome_media(struct isoburn **o, struct burn_drive *d,
        (*o)->emulation_mode= -1;
        goto ex;
      }
-     /* try to read emulated toc */
-     ret= isoburn_emulate_toc(d, 0);
-     if(ret<0) {
-       (*o)->emulation_mode= -1;
-       goto ex;
+     if(!(flag & 16)) {
+       /* try to read emulated toc */
+       ret= isoburn_emulate_toc(d, 0);
+       if(ret<0) {
+         (*o)->emulation_mode= -1;
+         goto ex;
+       }
      }
    }
 
@@ -326,9 +329,13 @@ static int isoburn_welcome_media(struct isoburn **o, struct burn_drive *d,
 
    if(readonly) {
      /* This might be overwriteable media in a -ROM drive */
-     ret= isoburn_emulate_toc(d, 1);
-     if(ret<0)
-       goto ex;
+     if((flag & 16)) {
+       ret= 0;
+     } else {
+       ret= isoburn_emulate_toc(d, 1);
+       if(ret<0)
+         goto ex;
+     }
      if(ret==0 && profile !=0x08 && (flag&8)) {
        /* This might also be multi-session media which do not
           get shown with a decent TOC.
@@ -373,24 +380,38 @@ ex:
                       table of content by scanning for ISO image headers.
                       (depending on media type and drive state this might 
                        help or it might make the resulting toc even worse)
+                bit4= do not emulate TOC on overwriteable media
 */
 int isoburn_drive_aquire(struct burn_drive_info *drive_infos[],
                          char *adr, int flag)
 {
- int ret, conv_ret, drive_grabbed= 0;
- char libburn_drive_adr[BURN_DRIVE_ADR_LEN];
+ int ret, drive_grabbed= 0;
  struct isoburn *o= NULL;
 
+#ifndef NIX
+
+/* <<< should be obsolete by new drive addressing of libburn-0.5.2 */
+/* >>> but helps with kernel 2.4 to use /dev/sr */
+
+ int conv_ret;
+ char libburn_drive_adr[BURN_DRIVE_ADR_LEN];
+
  conv_ret= burn_drive_convert_fs_adr(adr, libburn_drive_adr);
  if(conv_ret<=0)
    strcpy(libburn_drive_adr, adr);
-
  ret= burn_drive_scan_and_grab(drive_infos, libburn_drive_adr, flag&1);
+
+#else
+
+ ret= burn_drive_scan_and_grab(drive_infos, adr, flag & 1);
+
+#endif /* ! NIX */
+
  if(ret<=0)
    goto ex;
  drive_grabbed= 1;
  ret= isoburn_welcome_media(&o, (*drive_infos)[0].drive,
-                            (flag&8) | !!(flag&2));
+                            (flag & 24) | !!(flag&2));
  if(ret<=0)
    goto ex;
 

libisoburn/data_source.c

@@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ int ds_read_block(IsoDataSource *src, uint32_t lba, uint8_t *buffer)
      return 1;
    tiles[oldest].last_error_lba = lba;
 
+#ifdef ISO_DATA_SOURCE_MISHAP
+   ret= ISO_DATA_SOURCE_MISHAP;
+#else
+   /* <<< pre libisofs-0.6.7 */
    /* It is not required by the specs of libisofs but implicitely assumed
       ...
       But it is not possible to ignore FAILURE.
@@ -159,6 +163,8 @@ int ds_read_block(IsoDataSource *src, uint32_t lba, uint8_t *buffer)
       enough to make it appear plausible.
    */
    ret= ISO_FILE_CANT_WRITE;
+#endif
+
    if(ret >= 0)
      ret = -1;
    sprintf(msg, "ds_read_block(%lu) returns %d", (unsigned long) lba, ret);

libisoburn/libisoburn.h

@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ void isoburn_version(int *major, int *minor, int *micro);
 */
 #define isoburn_libisofs_req_major  0
 #define isoburn_libisofs_req_minor  6
-#define isoburn_libisofs_req_micro  6
+#define isoburn_libisofs_req_micro 10 
 
 /** The minimum version of libburn to be used with this version of libisoburn
     at compile time.
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ void isoburn_version(int *major, int *minor, int *micro);
 */
 #define isoburn_libburn_req_major  0
 #define isoburn_libburn_req_minor  5
-#define isoburn_libburn_req_micro  2
+#define isoburn_libburn_req_micro  4
 
 
 /** The minimum version of libisofs to be used with this version of libisoburn
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ int isoburn_libburn_req(int *major, int *minor, int *micro);
 */
 #define isoburn_header_version_major  0
 #define isoburn_header_version_minor  2
-#define isoburn_header_version_micro  4
+#define isoburn_header_version_micro  8
 /** Note:
     Above version numbers are also recorded in configure.ac because libtool
     wants them as parameters at build time.
@@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ int isoburn_drive_scan_and_grab(struct burn_drive_info *drive_infos[],
                         table of content by scanning for ISO image headers.
                         (depending on media type and drive this might
                          help or it might make the resulting toc even worse)
+                  bit4= do not emulate table of content on overwriteable media
     @return       1 = success , 0 = drive not found , <0 = other error
 */
 int isoburn_drive_aquire(struct burn_drive_info *drive_infos[],
@@ -1183,10 +1184,9 @@ int isoburn_prepare_blind_grow(struct burn_drive *d, struct burn_disc **disc,
 
 
 /**
-    Revoke isoburn_prepare_new_image() or isoburn_prepare_disc() instead of
-    running isoburn_disc_write().
+    Revoke isoburn_prepare_*() instead of running isoburn_disc_write().
     libisofs reserves resources and maybe already starts generating the
-    image stream when one of above two calls is performed. It is mandatory to
+    image stream when one of above three calls is performed. It is mandatory to
     either run isoburn_disc_write() or to revoke the preparations by the
     call described here.
     @since 0.1.0

xorriso/README

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 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-0.2.4.pl00.tar.gz
+http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/xorriso-0.2.8.pl00.tar.gz
 Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Thomas Schmitt, provided under GPL version 2.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ The tarball contains anything that is needed except libc and libpthread.
 libreadline and the readline-dev headers will make dialog mode more convenient,
 but are not mandatory.
 
-Obtain xorriso-0.2.4.pl00.tar.gz, take it to a directory of your choice and do:
+Obtain xorriso-0.2.8.pl00.tar.gz, take it to a directory of your choice and do:
 
-    tar xzf xorriso-0.2.4.pl00.tar.gz
-    cd xorriso-0.2.4
+    tar xzf xorriso-0.2.8.pl00.tar.gz
+    cd xorriso-0.2.8
 
 Within that directory execute:
 
@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ The installation creates several alias links pointing to the xorriso binary:
     xorrecord  starts xorriso with -as cdrecord emulation already enabled
     osirrox    starts with -osirrox image-to-disk copying already enabled
 
+If you want to avoid dependecy on libreadline although the libreadline
+development package is installed, then rather build xorriso by:
+    ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-libreadline 
+    make clean ; make
+Never omit the "make clean" command after switching libreadline enabling.
+
 
                        Drives and Disk File Objects 
 
@@ -186,9 +192,9 @@ and a matching dynamically linked xorriso binary.
 This binary is leaner but depends on properly installed libraries of suitable
 revision.
 
-Dynamic library and compile time header requirements for libisoburn-0.2.4 :
-- libburn.so.4  , version libburn-0.5.2 or higher
-- libisofs.so.6 , version libisofs-0.6.6 or higher
+Dynamic library and compile time header requirements for libisoburn-0.2.8 :
+- libburn.so.4  , version libburn-0.5.4 or higher
+- libisofs.so.6 , version libisofs-0.6.10 or higher
 libisoburn and xorriso will not start with libraries which are older than their
 headers seen at compile time. So compile in the oldest possible installation
 setup unless you have reason to enforce a newer bug fix level.

xorriso/changelog.txt

@@ -3520,12 +3520,12 @@ Fixed a bug with -check_media use=outdev
 xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
 Reacted on compiler warning
 
-
 ------------------------------------ cycle  - xorriso-0.2.3 - 2008.08.24.125257
 * New -find action "report_lba"
 * New -error_behavior behavior occasion "file_extraction"
 
-2008.08.24.160001  []
+
+2008.08.24.160001  [2011]
 configure.ac
 README
 libisoburn/libisoburn.h
@@ -3538,10 +3538,13 @@ xorriso/make_xorriso_standalone.sh
 xorriso/configure_ac.txt
 Version leap to 0.2.4
 
-  []
+24 Aug 2008  [2012]
 xorriso/changelog.txt
 Documented changes and release timestamp
 
+24 Aug 2008  [2013]
+configure.ac
+Corrected ISOBURN_MICRO_VERSION
 
 ---------------------------------- release  - xorriso-0.2.4 - 2008.08.24.160001
 * Included libburn has enhanced Linux drive access and listing code
@@ -3549,12 +3552,424 @@ Documented changes and release timestamp
 * New -find test -damaged, new -find actions "report_damage", "report_lba"
 * New -error_behavior occasion "file_extraction"
 
------------------------------------- cycle  - xorriso-0.2.5 - 
------------------------------------- cycle  - xorriso-0.2.5 - 
+
+2008.08.24.173217  [2014]
+configure.ac
+README
+libisoburn/libisoburn.h
+xorriso/README
+xorriso/xorriso_timestamp.h
+xorriso/xorriso_private.h
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.h
+xorriso/xorriso_eng.html
+xorriso/make_xorriso_standalone.sh
+xorriso/configure_ac.txt
+Version leap to 0.2.5
+
+24 Aug 2008  [2015]
+xorriso/changelog.txt
+Documented changes and release timestamp
+
+------------------------------------ cycle  - xorriso-0.2.5 - 2008.08.24.173217
+
+26 Aug 2008  [2017]
+xorriso/convert_man_to_html.sh
+Adjusted HTML generator to recent man page changes
+
+2008.08.26.163254  [2018]
+libisoburn/libisoburn.h
+libisoburn/data_source.c
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+xorriso/configure_ac.txt
+Adopting next development step of libisofs
+
+26 Aug 2008  [2019]
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+Adjusted man page statements about file size limits
+
+2008.08.27.121211  [2020]
+xorriso/xorriso_private.h
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+New option -file_size_limit, -as mkisofs now supports -iso-level 1 to 3
+
+2008.08.27.122127  [2021]
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+Reacted on compiler warning
+
+------------------------------------ cycle  - xorriso-0.2.5 - 2008.08.27.122127
+* Capability to insert and extract files far larger than 4 GB
+* New option -file_size_limit, -as mkisofs now supports -iso-level 1 to 3
+
+
+27 Aug 2008  [2022]
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+Corrected a typo in man page
+
+2008.09.02.164803  [2025]
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.h
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+New option -extract_cut
+
+2008.09.03.143218  [2026]
+xorriso/xorriso_private.h
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+New -error_behavior "file_extraction" behavior "best_effort" 
+
+2008.09.04.100158  [2027]
+xorriso/xorriso.h
+xorriso/xorriso_private.h
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+New option -check_media_defaults
+
+------------------------------------ cycle  - xorriso-0.2.5 - 2008.09.04.100158
+* New option -extract_cut
+* New -error_behavior "file_extraction" behavior "best_effort" 
+* New option -check_media_defaults
+
+
+2008.09.05.095344  [2028]
+xorriso/xorriso_private.h
+xorriso/xorriso.h
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+New option -list_delimiter
+
+5 Sep 2008  [2029]
+xorriso/xorriso_eng.html
+Updated development feature list
+
+2008.09.05.114936  [2030]
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+-commit_eject, -alter_date, -alter_date_r, -pacifier, -prog_help had wrong argument count prediction
+
+5 Sep 2008  [2031]
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+Documented forgotten option -publisher
+
+5 Sep 2008  [2032]
+xorriso/xorriso_eng.html
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+Minor documentation polishing
+
+------------------------------------ cycle  - xorriso-0.2.5 - 2008.09.05.114936
+* New option -list_delimiter
+
+
+6 Sep 2008  [2033]
+xorriso/xorriso_eng.html
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+Documentation polishing
+
+2008.09.07.144714  [2034]
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+Removed outdated alternative code for support of libisofs-0.6.6
+
+2008.09.08.094748  [2035]
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+Made use of new libisofs call iso_image_update_sizes()
+
+2008.09.08.121548  [2036]
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+Bug fix: -format full did not re-format already formatted DVD+RW
+
+2008.09.09.082406  [2037]
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+Smoothened time estimation with pacifier mkisofs style
+
+9 Sep 2008  [2038]
+xorriso/xorriso_eng.html
+Updated web page
+
+------------------------------------ cycle  - xorriso-0.2.5 - 2008.09.09.082406
+* Bug fix: -format full did not re-format already formatted DVD+RW
+
+
+2008.09.11.114227  [2040]
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+Issuing message at begin of image loading
+
+2008.09.13.204455  [2047]
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+Correction about -check_media report and message about image loading
+
+2008.09.16.060427  [2053]
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+Corrected pacifier text (Ticket 141)
+
+2008.09.16.185206  [2054]
+xorriso/xorriso_private.h
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+Corrected falsely computed default setting of -file_size_limit
+
+2008.09.17.193824  [2056]
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+Corrected message duplication about emulated sessions on overwriteable media
+
+2008.09.19.090619  [2057] [2058]
+xorriso/configure_ac.txt
+standalone version switch to libisofs-0.6.8
+
+19 Sep 2008  [2059]
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+Small change in man page
+
+2008.09.19.104424  [2060]
+configure.ac
+libisoburn/libisoburn.h
+Switched requirements to libisofs-0.6.8
+
+------------------------------------ cycle  - xorriso-0.2.5 - 2008.09.19.104424
+
+
+2008.09.19.122656  [2061]
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+Changed WARNING about non-writeable media to NOTE severity of blank messages
+
+
+2008.09.19.180001  [2066]
+configure.ac
+README
+libisoburn/libisoburn.h
+xorriso/README
+xorriso/xorriso_timestamp.h
+xorriso/xorriso_private.h
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.h
+xorriso/xorriso_eng.html
+xorriso/make_xorriso_standalone.sh
+xorriso/configure_ac.txt
+Version leap to 0.2.6
+
+20 Sep 2008  [2067]
+xorriso/changelog.txt
+Documented changes and release timestamp
+
+---------------------------------- release  - xorriso-0.2.6 - 2008.09.19.180001
+* Capability to insert and extract files far larger than 4 GB
+* New option -file_size_limit, -as mkisofs now supports -iso-level 1 to 3
+* New option -extract_cut
+* New -error_behavior "file_extraction" behavior "best_effort" 
+* New option -check_media_defaults
+* New option -list_delimiter
+* Bug fix: -format full did not re-format already formatted DVD+RW
+
+
+2008.09.20.093140  [2068]
+configure.ac
+README
+libisoburn/libisoburn.h
+xorriso/README
+xorriso/xorriso_timestamp.h
+xorriso/xorriso_private.h
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.h
+xorriso/xorriso_eng.html
+xorriso/make_xorriso_standalone.sh
+xorriso/configure_ac.txt
+Version leap to 0.2.7
+
+20 Sep 2008  [2069]
+xorriso/changelog.txt
+Documented changes and release timestamp
+
+------------------------------------ cycle  - xorriso-0.2.7 - 2008.09.20.093140
+
+2008.09.24.155424  [2077]
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+Trying to get pacifiers of simultaneously running emulations into sync
+
+2008.09.26.120934  [2082]
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+Bug fix: -as mkisofs -iso-level was accused to be an unknown option
+
+2008.09.26.161331  [2083]
+xorriso/xorriso_private.h
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.h
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+A first attempt on making bootable ISO images
+
+2008.09.28.112850  [2084]
+xorriso/configure_ac.txt
+Standalone version switch to libisofs-0.6.9 (vreixoml 387) to avoid SIGSEGV
+
+2008.09.28.113256  [2085]
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+xorriso/convert_man_to_html.sh
+xorriso/xorriso_eng.html
+Made -boot_image isolinux activation obey -overwrite setting
+
+2008.09.30.102243  [2088]
+libisoburn/libisoburn.h
+Requiring libisofs-0.6.9 because of bug fixes with El Torito
+
+2008.09.30.102753  [2089]
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+Adjustments about -boot_image after testing with various media types
+
+30 Sep 2008  [2090]
+xorriso/xorriso_eng.html
+Mentioned progress and bug fixes in 0.2.7
+
+------------------------------------ cycle  - xorriso-0.2.7 - 2008.09.30.102753
+* Bug fix: -as mkisofs -iso-level was accused to be an unknown option
+* Ability to write and maintain bootable ISO images based on ISOLINUX
+
+
+2008.09.30.174925  [2091]
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+Small adjustments about -boot_image
+
+2008.10.02.092354  [2092]
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+Small adjustments about -boot_image
+
+2008.10.02.092635  [2093]
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+Enabled -as cdrecord blank=as_needed
+
+2008.10.02.105442  [2094]
+xorriso/README
+xorriso/configure_ac.txt
+Introduced xorriso-standalone ./configure option --disable-libreadline
+
+2008.10.02.110828  [2095]
+README
+xorriso/README
+xorriso/configure_ac.txt
+Fine tuning about ./configure option --disable-libreadline
+
+------------------------------------ cycle  - xorriso-0.2.7 - 2008.10.02.110828
+* New ./configure option --disable-libreadline to make binary more portable
+
+
+4 Oct 2008  [2099]
+xorriso/convert_man_to_html.sh
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+Relocated the El Torito paragraph in man xorriso
+
+2008.10.05.075432  [2101]
+libisoburn/libisoburn.h
+libisoburn/burn_wrap.c
+xorriso/xorriso_private.h
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+-rom_toc_scan nonrom_off disables toc emulation on overwriteables
+
+2008.10.05.093703  [2105]
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+Bug fix: Random target filenames with looping symbolic links
+
+2008.10.05.125046  [2109]
+xorriso/configure_ac.txt
+Adapted standalone BURN_*_VERSION to libburn 0.5.5
+
+2008.10.05.125242  [2110]
+configure.ac
+libisoburn/libisoburn.h
+libisoburn now demands libburn-0.5.4 
+
+------------------------------------ cycle  - xorriso-0.2.7 - 2008.10.05.125242
+* Bug fix: -follow link attributed random target filenames to looping links
+
+
+2008.10.06.114114  [2113]
+xorriso/configure_ac.txt
+Adapted standalone LIBISOFS_*_VERSION to libisofs 0.6.10
+
+2008.10.06.114845  [2114]
+configure.ac
+libisoburn/libisoburn.h
+libisoburn now demands libisofs-0.6.10
+
+------------------------------------ cycle  - xorriso-0.2.7 - 2008.10.06.114845
+
+
+7 Oct 2008  [2115]
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+Polished man xorriso
+
+2008.10.08.135848  [2116]
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+Changed newly introduced -rom_toc_scan nonrom_off to off:emul_off
+
+2008.10.09.145926  [2117]
+configure.ac
+README
+Introduced libburn ./configure option --disable-libreadline
+
+9 Oct 2008  [2118]
+xorriso/compile_xorriso.sh
+Introduced xorriso development compiler script option -no_libreadline
+
+------------------------------------ cycle  - xorriso-0.2.7 - 2008.10.09.145926
+
+
+2008.10.10.131102  [2119]
+xorriso/xorriso_private.h
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+Enabled dialog for multi-lines and newline characters in quotation marks
+
+2008.10.10.134020  [2120]
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+Polishing multi-line dialog
+
+2008.10.12.120001  [2122]
+configure.ac
+README
+libisoburn/libisoburn.h
+xorriso/README
+xorriso/xorriso_timestamp.h
+xorriso/xorriso_private.h
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.h
+xorriso/xorriso_eng.html
+xorriso/make_xorriso_standalone.sh
+xorriso/configure_ac.txt
+Version leap to 0.2.8
+
+12 Oct 2008  []
+xorriso/changelog.txt
+Documented changes and release timestamp
+
+---------------------------------- release  - xorriso-0.2.8 - 2008.10.12.120001
+* Bug fix: -as mkisofs -iso-level was accused to be an unknown option
+* Bug fix: -follow link attributed random target filenames to looping links
+* Ability to write and maintain bootable ISO images based on ISOLINUX
+* New ./configure option --disable-libreadline to make binary more portable
+
+
+------------------------------------ cycle  - xorriso-0.2.9 - 
+------------------------------------ cycle  - xorriso-0.2.9 - 
 
   []
-libisoburn/burn_wrap.c
-Tested removal of drive address path conversion in isoburn_drive_aquire()
+xorriso/xorriso.h
+xorriso/xorriso.c
+xorriso/xorriso.1
+xorriso/xorrisoburn.c
+New option -quoted_path_list
+
+
+
 
 
 ===============================================================================
@@ -3565,16 +3980,23 @@ Tested removal of drive address path conversion in isoburn_drive_aquire()
 
 ------------------------------------------------- important
 
-
 ------------------------------------------------- development
 
-- option -list_delimiter
+- creation of bootable images
+  - ? declare change pending after -boot_image isolinux bootspec ?
+  - isohybrid option as soon as supported by libisofs
+
+- xorriso seems able to deal with newlines in file names.
+  Now a path_list format is needed which escapes newlines.
+  Dialog needs to be enabled for newlines.
+ 
+- random access read and write option
+
+- option to patch the mount image size and location on overwriteables
 
 - change -check_media what=disc to libburn disc rather than libisoburn
   (seems to need new API capabilities of libburn)
 
-- opportunity to retrieve file via burn_read_data() and libisofs provided lba
-
 ??? Clarify handling  of links in ISO and on disk during restore
 
 > Relative addressing and pattern matching :
@@ -3586,8 +4008,7 @@ Tested removal of drive address path conversion in isoburn_drive_aquire()
   the main thread cares for user and message queues.
 
 - Introduce an interrupt key for dialog
-
-- watch read latency and evaluate read quality indicator
+  >>> but how without disturbing readline ?
 
 - regularly do valgrind check for memory leaks
 
@@ -3611,30 +4032,14 @@ Tested removal of drive address path conversion in isoburn_drive_aquire()
 
 ------ problem fixes :
 
-- Error code for libisoburn data source read errors.
-
-- Proper reaction on severity of errors issued by data_source
-  (currently even a FATAL gets converted to ISO_FILE_READ_ERROR 
-   in iso_stream_read())
-
-- #define ISO_ERR_PRIO(e)     ((e & 0x00700000) << 8)
-  (rather than 0x00F00000, see ticket 135)
-
 - the error handling system should be comprehensively documented
   and eventually rectified where needed.
 
-- ticket 137:
-  With softlink /X/YZ and Joliet enabled:
-    libisofs: HINT : Can't add YZ to Joliet tree. This kind of files can only be added to a Rock Ridget tree. Skipping.
-  HINT is not a suitable severity for this. Better: WARNING, SORRY, MISHAP
-  One should at least give the full path of /X/YZ or the type of the file.
-
-
 ------ feature enhancements :
 
-- Data files >= 4 GiB.
-
-- API: iso_image_update_sizes() to be run immediately before -commit
+- Optional performing of ISO hybrid patch for USB and other pseudo hard disks
+   http://www.sfr-fresh.com/linux/misc/syslinux-3.72.tar.gz:a/syslinux-3.72/utils/isohybrid
+   http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2008-October/010869.html
 
 - A repeatable shell command as origin ("disk_file")
   of a regular file in the ISO image.
@@ -3646,9 +4051,6 @@ Tested removal of drive address path conversion in isoburn_drive_aquire()
 - Image checksum tag in the last data blocks of an image.
   A data file entry should point to that block.
 
-- creation of bootable images
-  >>> Vreixo points to demo/iso.c
- 
 
 ------ extended attribute stunts: Not visible for mount but for libisofs
 

xorriso/compile_xorriso.sh

@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ do_strip=0
 static_opts=
 warn_opts="-Wall"
 nglibisofs=1
+def_libreadline="-DXorriso_with_readlinE"
+link_libreadline="-lreadline"
 
 for i in "$@"
 do
@@ -35,11 +37,16 @@ do
   elif test "$i" = "-g"
   then
     debug_opts="-g -O0"
+  elif test "$i" = "-no_libreadline"
+  then
+    def_libreadline=""
+    link_libreadline=""
   elif test "$i" = "-help" -o "$i" = "--help" -o "$i" = "-h"
   then
     echo \
         "$xorr/compile_xorriso.sh : to be executed above top level directories"
     echo "Options:"
+    echo "  -no_libreadline   do not compile for and link with libreadline."
     echo "  -do_diet          produce capability reduced lean version."
     echo "  -do_strip         apply program strip to compiled programs."
     echo "  -g                produce debuggable programm."
@@ -83,7 +90,7 @@ date -u '+#define Xorriso_build_timestamP "%Y.%m.%d.%H%M%S"' >"$xorr"/xorriso_bu
 echo "Build timestamp   :  $(sed -e 's/#define Xorriso_build_timestamP "//' -e 's/"$//' "$xorr"/xorriso_buildstamp.h)"
 
 echo "compiling program $xorr/xorriso.c $static_opts $debug_opts $def_opts"
-cc -I. -DXorriso_with_maiN -DXorriso_with_regeX -DXorriso_with_readlinE \
+cc -I. -DXorriso_with_maiN -DXorriso_with_regeX $def_libreadline \
   $warn_opts \
   $static_opts \
   $debug_opts \
@@ -130,7 +137,7 @@ cc -I. -DXorriso_with_maiN -DXorriso_with_regeX -DXorriso_with_readlinE \
   \
   $libisofs \
   \
-  -lreadline \
+  $link_libreadline \
   \
   -lpthread
 

xorriso/configure_ac.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT([xorriso], [0.2.3], [http://libburnia-project.org])
+AC_INIT([xorriso], [0.2.8], [http://libburnia-project.org])
 AC_PREREQ([2.50])
 dnl AC_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h])	
 
@@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([subdir-objects])
 
 BURN_MAJOR_VERSION=0
 BURN_MINOR_VERSION=5
-BURN_MICRO_VERSION=3
+BURN_MICRO_VERSION=5
 AC_SUBST(BURN_MAJOR_VERSION)
 AC_SUBST(BURN_MINOR_VERSION)
 AC_SUBST(BURN_MICRO_VERSION)
 
 LIBISOFS_MAJOR_VERSION=0
 LIBISOFS_MINOR_VERSION=6
-LIBISOFS_MICRO_VERSION=6
+LIBISOFS_MICRO_VERSION=10
 AC_SUBST(LIBISOFS_MAJOR_VERSION)
 AC_SUBST(LIBISOFS_MINOR_VERSION)
 AC_SUBST(LIBISOFS_MICRO_VERSION)
@@ -95,14 +95,20 @@ else
     CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DDEBUG"
 fi
 
-
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(libreadline,
+[  --enable-libreadline    Enable use of libreadline by xorriso, default=yes],
+               , enable_libreadline=yes)
+if test x$enable_libreadline = xyes; then
 dnl Check whether there is readline-devel and readline-runtime.
 dnl If not, erase this macro which would enable use of readline(),add_history()
-READLINE_DEF="-DXorriso_with_readlinE"
+    READLINE_DEF="-DXorriso_with_readlinE"
 dnl The empty yes case obviously causes -lreadline to be linked
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(readline/readline.h, AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, readline, , READLINE_DEF= ), READLINE_DEF= )
+    AC_CHECK_HEADER(readline/readline.h, AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, readline, , READLINE_DEF= ), READLINE_DEF= )
 dnl The X= in the yes case prevents that -lreadline gets linked twice
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(readline/history.h, AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, add_history, X= , READLINE_DEF= ), READLINE_DEF= )
+    AC_CHECK_HEADER(readline/history.h, AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, add_history, X= , READLINE_DEF= ), READLINE_DEF= )
+else
+    READLINE_DEF=
+fi
 AC_SUBST(READLINE_DEF)
 
 

xorriso/convert_man_to_html.sh

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ then
   -e 's/<b>Libburn drives:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Libburn drives:<\/b>/' \
   -e 's/^-dev /\&nbsp;\&nbsp;-dev /' \
   -e 's/^-devices /\&nbsp;\&nbsp;-devices /' \
-  -e 's/<b>Rock Ridge, POSIX, X\/Open:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Rock Ridge, POSIX, X\/Open:<\/b>/' \
+  -e 's/<b>Rock Ridge, POSIX, X\/Open, and El Torito:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Rock Ridge, POSIX, X\/Open, and El Torito:<\/b>/' \
   -e 's/<b>Command processing:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Command processing:<\/b>/' \
   -e 's/<b>Dialog, Readline, Result pager:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Dialog, Readline, Result pager:<\/b>/' \
   -e 's/<b>Aquiring source and target drive:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Aquiring source and target drive:<\/b><BR>\&nbsp;<BR>/' \
@@ -66,10 +66,12 @@ then
   -e 's/^706k = 706kB/\&nbsp;\&nbsp;706k = 706kB/' \
   -e 's/^5540k = 5540kB/\&nbsp;\&nbsp;5540k = 5540kB/' \
   -e 's/<b>Exception processing:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Exception processing:<\/b><BR>\&nbsp;<BR>/' \
+  -e 's/<b>El Torito bootable ISO images:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>El Torito bootable ISO images:<\/b><BR>\&nbsp;<BR>/' \
   -e 's/<b>Dialog mode control:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Dialog mode control:<\/b><BR>\&nbsp;<BR>/' \
   -e 's/<b>Drive and media related inquiry actions:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Drive and media related inquiry actions:<\/b><BR>\&nbsp;<BR>/' \
   -e 's/<b>Navigation in ISO image/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Navigation in ISO image/' \
   -e 's/^filesystem:<\/b>/filesystem:<\/b><BR>\&nbsp;<BR>/' \
+  -e 's/<b>Evaluation of readability and recovery:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Evaluation of readability and recovery:<\/b><BR>\&nbsp;<BR>/' \
   -e 's/<b>osirrox restore options:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>osirrox restore options:<\/b><BR>\&nbsp;<BR>/' \
   -e 's/<b>Command compatibility emulations:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Command compatibility emulations:<\/b><BR>\&nbsp;<BR>/' \
   -e 's/^<p><b>&minus;as</<p>\&nbsp;<BR><b>\&minus;as</' \

xorriso/make_xorriso_standalone.sh

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 current_dir=$(pwd)
 lone_dir="$current_dir"/"xorriso-standalone"
 
-xorriso_rev=0.2.4
+xorriso_rev=0.2.8
 # For unstable uploads:
 # xorriso_pl=""
 # For stable releases:

xorriso/xorriso.1

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .\" 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 "Aug 24, 2008"
+.TH XORRISO 1 "Oct 10, 2008"
 .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
 .\"
 .\" Some roff macros, for reference:
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ Updates ISO subtrees incrementally to match given disk subtrees.
 Writes result either as completely new image or as add-on session
 to optical media or filesystem objects.
 .br
+Can activate ISOLINUX boot images via El Torito.
+.br
 Can perform multi-session tasks as emulation of mkisofs and cdrecord.
 .br
 Can restore files from ISO image to disk filesystem (see osirrox).
@@ -77,7 +79,7 @@ Creating, Growing, Modifying, Blind Growing
 .br
 Libburn drives
 .br
-Rock Ridge, POSIX, X/Open
+Rock Ridge, POSIX, X/Open, and El Torito
 .br
 Command processing
 .br
@@ -325,7 +327,7 @@ One may use option
 .B -ban_stdio_write
 to surely prevent this risk and to allow only MMC drives.
 .SS
-.B Rock Ridge, POSIX, X/Open:
+.B Rock Ridge, POSIX, X/Open, and El Torito:
 .br
 .B Rock Ridge
 is the name of a set of additional informations which enhance
@@ -340,16 +342,39 @@ xorriso is not named "porriso" because POSIX only guarantees 14 characters
 of filename length. It is the X/Open System Interface standard XSI which
 demands a file name length of up to 255 characters and paths of up to 1024
 characters. Rock Ridge fulfills this demand.
+.PP
+An
+.B El Torito
+boot record connects a boot image, which is a binary program plus some
+other files stored in the ISO image, with the bootstrapping facility of
+contemporary computers.
+The content of the boot image files is not in the scope of El Torito.
+.br
+Most bootable Linux CDs are equipped with ISOLINUX boot images. xorriso is
+able to create or maintain an El Torito object which makes such an image
+bootable. Emulation -as mkisofs supports the example options out of the
+ISOLINUX wiki.
+.br
+The support for other boot image types is sparse.
 .SS
 .B Command processing:
 .br
 Commands are either actions or settings. They consist of a command word,
 followed by zero or more parameter words. If the list of parameter words
 is of variable length (indicated by "[...]" or "[***]") then it has to be
-terminated by either the word "--" or the end of argument list or an end of
-an input line.
-It is not an error if "--" appears after the parameters of a command
-with a fixed list length.
+terminated by either the list delimiter, or the end of argument list, or an
+end of an input line.
+.PP
+At program start the \fBlist delimiter\fR is the word "--". This may be changed
+by option -list_delimiter in order to allow "--" as argument in a list of
+variable length.  It is advised to reset the delimiter to "--" immediately
+afterwards.
+.br
+For brevity the list delimiter is referred as "--" throughout this text.
+.br
+The list delimiter is silently tolerated if it appears after the parameters of
+a command with a fixed list length. It is handled as normal text if it
+appears among the arguments of such a command.
 .PP
 .B Pattern expansion
 is a property of some particular commands and not a general
@@ -386,7 +411,7 @@ to make dialog more comfortable.
 .PP
 Readline is an enhancement for the input line. You may know it already from
 the bash shell. Whether it is available in xorriso depends on the availability
-of package readline-dev at the time when xorriso was built from its sourcecode.
+package readline-dev at the time when xorriso was built from its sourcecode.
 .br
 It allows to move the cursor over the text in the line by help of the
 Leftward and the Rightward arrow key.
@@ -456,8 +481,8 @@ changes.
 .br
 -outdev can be performed without previous -dev or -indev. In that case an
 empty ISO image with no changes pending is created. It can either be populated
-by help of -add or it can be discarded silently if -dev or -indev are
-performed afterwards.
+by help of -map, -add et.al. or it can be discarded silently if -dev or -indev
+are performed afterwards.
 .br
 Special address string "-" means standard output, to which several restrictions
 apply. See above paragraph "Libburn drives".
@@ -507,7 +532,7 @@ until the next -dev or -indev. After the image has been loaded once, the
 setting is valid for -rollback until next -dev or -indev, where it
 will be reset to "auto".
 .TP
-\fB\-rom_toc_scan\fR "on"|"off"
+\fB\-rom_toc_scan\fR "on"|"off"[:"emul_on"|"emul_off"]
 Read-only drives do not tell the actual media type but show any media as
 ROM (e.g. as DVD-ROM). The session history of MMC multi-session media might
 be truncated to first and last session or even be completely false.
@@ -518,8 +543,13 @@ especially the address of the last session, there is a scan for ISO 9660
 filesystem headers which might help but also might yield worse results
 than the drive's table of content. At its end it can cause read attempts
 to invalid addresses and thus ugly drive behavior.
+Setting "on" enables that scan for alleged read-only media.
 .br
-To be in effect, -rom_toc_scan has to be enabled by "on" before the -*dev
+On the other hand the emulation of session history on overwriteable media
+can hamper reading of partly damaged media. Setting "off:emul_off" disables
+the elsewise trustworthy table-of-content scan for those media.
+.br
+To be in effect, the -rom_toc_scan setting has to be made before the -*dev
 command which aquires drive and media.
 .TP
 \fB\-ban_stdio_write\fR
@@ -679,7 +709,8 @@ Map a byte interval of a regular disk file into a regular file in the ISO
 image.
 This may be necessary if the disk file is larger than a single media, or if
 it exceeds the traditional limit of 2 GiB - 1 for old operating systems,
-or the limit of 4 GiB - 1 for newer ones.
+or the limit of 4 GiB - 1 for newer ones. Only the newest Linux kernels
+seem to read properly files >= 4 GiB - 1.
 .br
 A clumsy remedy for this limit is to backup file pieces and to concatenate
 them at restore time. A well tested chopping size is 2047m.
@@ -851,7 +882,7 @@ iso_rr_path.
 -type type_letter
 .br
 matches only files files of the given type:
-"block", "char", "dir", "pipe", "file", "link", "socket",
+"block", "char", "dir", "pipe", "file", "link", "socket", "eltorito",
 "Xotic" which eventually matches what is not matched by the other types.
 .br
 Only the first letter is interpreted.  E.g.: -find / -type d
@@ -940,8 +971,9 @@ E.g.:
 .br
 "report_lba" prints files which are associated to image data blocks.
 It tells the logical block address, the block number, the byte size,
-and the path of each file. In future there may be reported more than one
-line per file if the file is very large.
+and the path of each file. There may be reported more than one
+line per file if the file is very large. In this case each line has a
+different extent number in column "xt".
 .br
 E.g.:
 .br
@@ -964,10 +996,6 @@ other file causes a FAILURE event.
 \fB\-rmdir\fR iso_rr_path [***]
 Delete empty directories.
 .TP
-\fB\-\-\fR
-.br
-Mark end of particular action argument list.
-.TP
 \fB\-rollback\fR
 Discard the manipulated ISO image and reload it from -indev.
 .TP
@@ -1092,6 +1120,22 @@ Smaller format size with DVD-RAM or BD-RE means more reserve space.
 .TP
 .B Settings for data insertion:
 .TP
+\fB\-file_size_limit\fR value [value [...]] --
+Set the maximum permissible size for a single data file. The values get
+summed up for the actual limit. If the only value is "off" then the file
+size is not limited by xorriso. Default is a limit of 100 extents, 4g -2k each:
+.br
+ -file_size_limit 400g -200k --
+.br
+When mounting ISO 9660 filesystems, old operating systems can handle only files
+up to 2g -1 --. Newer ones are good up to 4g -1 --.
+You need quite a new Linux kernel to read correctly the final bytes
+of a file >= 4g if its size is not aligned to 2048 byte blocks.
+.br
+xorriso's own data read capabilities are not affected by eventual
+operating system size limits. They apply to mounting only. Nevertheless,
+the target filesystem of an -extract must be able to take the file size.
+.TP
 \fB\-not_mgt\fR code[:code[...]]
 Control the behavior of the exclusion lists.
 .br
@@ -1228,12 +1272,15 @@ target file objects on disk as well, but "on" is downgraded to "nondir".
 \fB\-split_size\fR number["k"|"m"]
 Set the threshold for automatic splitting of regular files. Such splitting
 maps a large disk file onto a ISO directory with several part files in it.
-This is necessary if the size of the disk file exceeds 4 GiB - 1.
-Older operating systems can handle files only if they are smaller than 2 GiB.
+This is necessary if the size of the disk file exceeds -file_size_limit.
+Older operating systems can handle files in mounted ISO 9660 filesystems
+only if they are smaller than 2 GiB resp. 4 GiB.
 See also option -cut_out for more information about file parts.
 .br
-Default is 0 which will exclude files >= 4 GiB by a FAILURE event.
-A well tested -split_size is 2047m. Sizes of 4 GiB or more are not permissible.
+Default is 0 which will exclude files larger than -file_size_limit by a
+FAILURE event.
+A well tested -split_size is 2047m. Sizes above -file_size_limit are not
+permissible.
 .TP                
 .B Settings for result writing:
 .TP
@@ -1262,6 +1309,10 @@ Consider this when setting -volid "ISOIMAGE" before executing -dev, -indev,
 or -rollback.
 If you insist in -volid "ISOIMAGE", set it again after those commands.
 .TP
+\fB\-publisher\fR text
+Set the publisher string to be written with the next -commit. Permissible
+are up to 128 characters.
+.TP
 \fB\-uid\fR uid
 User id to be used for all files when the new ISO tree gets written to media.
 .TP
@@ -1290,7 +1341,7 @@ for their own decision.
 .TP
 \fB\-stream_recording\fR "on"|"off"
 Setting "on" tries to circumvent the management of defects on DVD-RAM and
-DVD+RW. Defect management keeps partly damaged media usable. But it reduces
+BD-RE. Defect management keeps partly damaged media usable. But it reduces
 write speed to half nominal speed even if the media is in perfect shape.
 For the case of flawless media, one may use -stream_recording "on" to get
 full speed. 
@@ -1322,25 +1373,77 @@ xorriso adds the traditional 300k of padding by default to all images.
 .br
 For images which will never get to a CD it is safe to use -padding 0 .
 .TP
-\fB\-boot_image\fR "any"|"isolinux" "discard"|"keep"|"patch"
-Defines the handling of an eventual boot image (El-Torito) which has been read
-from an existing ISO image. All types ("any") can be discarded or kept
-unaltered. The latter makes only sense if the format of the boot image is
+.B El Torito bootable ISO images:
+.PP
+Contrary to published specifications many BIOSes will load an El Torito
+object from the first session on media and not from the last one, which
+gets mounted by default. This makes no problems with overwriteable media,
+because they appear to inadverted readers as one single session.
+.br
+But with multi-session media CD-R[W], DVD-R[W], DVD+R, it implies that the
+whole bootable system has to reside already in the first session and that
+the last session still has to bear all files which the booted system expects
+after eventually mounting the ISO image.
+.br
+If ISOLINUX is known to be present on media then it is advised to patch it
+when a follow-up session gets written. But one should not rely on the
+capability to influence the bootability of the existing sessions, unless one
+can assume overwriteable media.
+.TP
+\fB\-boot_image\fR "any"|"isolinux" "discard"|"keep"|"patch"|bootspec
+Defines the handling of an eventual El Torito object which has
+been read from an existing ISO image or defines how to make a prepared
+ISOLINUX file set bootable.
+.br
+
+All types ("any") of El Torito boot images can be discarded or kept unaltered.
+The latter makes only sense if the format of the boot image is
 relocatable without content changes.
 .br
-The boot image type "isolinux" can be kept unaltered (not advisable), or
-discarded, or it can be patched to match its relocation. In the latter case
-the resulting ISO image is bootable if the boot image was really complying
-to the isolinux standard.
-.br
-Creation of new boot images is not yet possible.
+An existing boot image of type "isolinux" can be discarded or it can be
+patched to match its relocation. In the latter case the resulting ISO image
+stays bootable if the boot image was really produced by ISOLINUX.
 .br
 CAUTION:
-This is an expert option. xorriso is not an expert yet.
-It cannot recognize the inner form of boot images.
+This is an expert option. 
+xorriso cannot recognize the inner form of boot images.
 So the user has already to know about the particular needs of the
-bootimage which is present on the input media.
+boot image which is present on the input media.
+.br
 Most safe is the default: "any" "discard".
+.br
+
+On all media types it is possible to activate a set of ISOLINUX files
+for booting within the first session. In further sessions an existing boot
+image can get replaced by a new one, but depending on the media type 
+this may have few effect at boot time. See above.
+.br
+The ISOLINUX files have to be added to the ISO image by normal means
+(image loading, -map, -add, ...) and should reside either in ISO image
+directory /isolinux or in /boot/isolinux .
+In that case it suffices to use as bootspec the text "dir=/isolinux" or
+"dir=/boot/isolinux". E.g.:
+.br
+ -boot_image isolinux dir=/boot/isolinux
+.br
+which bundles these individual settings:
+.br
+ -boot_image isolinux bin_path=/boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin
+.br
+ -boot_image isolinux cat_path=/boot/isolinux/boot.cat
+.br
+ -boot_image isolinux load_size=2048
+.br
+bin_path depicts the binary program which is to be started by the BIOS at
+boot time. It is among the files produced by ISOLINUX.
+.br
+An El Torito boot catalog file gets inserted into the ISO image with address
+cat_path at -commit time.
+It is subject to normal -overwrite and -reassure processing if there is already
+a file with the same name.
+.br
+The setting of -boot_image will change to "isolinux" "patch" after successful
+writing of a session with -boot_image "isolinux" bootspec.
 .TP
 .B Exception processing:
 .PP
@@ -1445,17 +1548,23 @@ It issues an own FAILURE event.
 "fatal" acts like "failure" but issues the own event as FATAL.
 This is the default.
 .br
-With occasion "file_extraction" there are two behaviors:
+With occasion "file_extraction" there are three behaviors:
 .br
-"keep" maintains incompletely extracted files on disk. "delete" removes
-files which encountered errors during content extraction.
+"keep" maintains incompletely extracted files on disk. This is the default.
+.br
+"delete" removes files which encountered errors during content extraction.
+.br
+"best_effort" starts a revovery attempt by means of -extract_cut.
 .TP
 .B Dialog mode control:
 .TP
-\fB\-dialog\fR "on"|"off"
-Enable or disable to enter dialog mode after all arguments
-are processed. In dialog mode input lines get prompted via
-readline or from stdin.
+\fB\-dialog\fR "on"|"off"|"single_line"
+Enable or disable to enter dialog mode after all arguments are processed.
+In dialog mode input lines get prompted via readline or from stdin.
+.br
+Mode "on" supports input of newline characters witing quotation marks and
+line continuation by trailing backslash outside quotation marks.
+Mode "single_line" does not.
 .TP
 \fB\-page\fR length width
 Describe terminal to the text pager. See also above, paragraph Result pager.
@@ -1711,9 +1820,25 @@ Try to read data blocks from the indev drive, eventually copy them to a
 disk file, and finally report about the encountered quality. Several options
 may be used to modify the default behavior.
 .br
-An option consists of a keyword, a "=" character, and a value.
+The options given with this command override the default settings which
+may have been changed by option -check_media_defaults. See there for a
+description of options.
 .br
-Default is:
+The result list tells intervals of 2 KiB blocks with start address, number
+of blocks and quality. Qualities which begin with "+" are
+supposed to be valid readable data. Qualities with "-" are no valid data.
+.br
+Alternatively it is possible to report damaged files rather than blocks.
+.TP
+\fB\-check_media_defaults\fR [option [option ...]] --
+Preset options for runs of -check_media, -extract_cut and best_effort
+file extraction. Eventual options given with -check_media will override the
+preset options. -extract_cut will override some options automatically.
+.br
+An option consists of a keyword, a "=" character, and a value. Options
+may override each other. So their sequence matters.
+.br
+The default setting at program start is:
 .br
 use=indev what=tracks min_lba=-1 max_lba=-1 retry=default
 time_limit=28800 item_limit=100000
@@ -1722,7 +1847,14 @@ abort_file=/var/opt/xorriso/do_abort_check_media
 .br
 data_to='' sector_map='' map_with_volid=off patch_lba0=off report=blocks
 .br
-Non-default settings:
+Option "reset=now" restores these startup defaults.
+.br
+Non-default options are:
+.br
+"report=files" lists the files which use damaged blocks (not with use=outdev).
+The format is like with find -exec report_damage.
+.br
+"report=blocks_files" first lists damaged blocks and then affected files.
 .br
 "use=outdev" reads from the output drive instead of the input drive. This
 avoids loading the ISO image tree from media.
@@ -1781,15 +1913,6 @@ have an -indev and a loaded image. ":force" may be appended after the number.
 .br
 "use=sector_map" does not read any media but loads the file given by option
 sector_map= and processes this virtual outcome.
-.br
-The result list tells intervals of 2 KiB blocks with start address, number
-of blocks and quality. Qualities which begin with "+" are
-supposed to be valid readable data. Qualities with "-" are no valid data.
-.br
-"report=files" lists the files which use damaged blocks (not with use=outdev).
-The format is like with find -exec report_damage.
-.br
-"report=blocks_files" first lists damaged blocks and then affected files.
 .TP
 .B osirrox restore options:
 .PP
@@ -1854,6 +1977,21 @@ restored.
 Performs -extract with each of the iso_rr_path arguments. disk_path will be
 composed from iso_rr_path by replacing iso_rr_prefix by disk_prefix.
 .TP
+\fB\-extract_cut\fR iso_rr_path byte_offset byte_count disk_path
+Copy a byte interval from a data file out of an ISO image into a newly created
+disk file.
+Two restrictions apply:
+.br
+The data bytes of iso_rr_path need to be already stored in the loaded ISO image
+and byte_offset must be a multiple of 2048, e.g. an integer with suffix
+s, m, or g.
+.br
+This option is implemented by a special run of -check_media and governed by
+most of the options which can be set by -check_media_defaults.
+Its main purpose is to allow handling of large files if they are not supported
+by mount -t iso9660 and if the reading system is unable to buffer them as
+a whole.
+.TP
 \fB\-cpx\fR iso_rr_path [***] disk_path
 Extract single leaf file objects from the ISO image and store them under
 the address given by disk_path. If more then one iso_rr_path is given then
@@ -1907,6 +2045,7 @@ Personality "\fBmkisofs\fR" accepts the options listed with:
 .br
 Among them: -R (always on), -J, -o, -M, -C, -path-list, -m, -exclude-list,
 -f, -print-size, -pad, -no-pad, -V, -v, -version, -graft-points,
+-no-emul-boot, -b, -c, -boot-info-table, -boot-load-size,
 pathspecs as with xorriso -add.
 A lot of options are not supported and lead to failure of the mkisofs
 emulation. Some are ignored, but better do not rely on this tolerance.
@@ -2037,6 +2176,13 @@ if its start matches the filter text. No wildcards.
 \fB\-status_history_max\fR number
 Set maximum number of history lines to be reported with -status "long_history".
 .TP
+\fB\-list_delimiter\fR word
+Set the list delimiter to be used instead of "--". It has to be a single word,
+must not be empty, not longer than 80 characters, and must not contain
+quotation marks.
+.br
+For brevity the list delimiter is referred as "--" throughout this text.
+.TP
 \fB\-temp_mem_limit\fR number["k"|"m"]
 Set the maximum size of temporary memory to be used for image dependent
 buffering. Currently this applies to pattern expansion only.
@@ -2137,7 +2283,9 @@ Manipulating an existing ISO image on the same media
 .br
 Copy modified ISO image from one media to another
 .br
-Write a ISO image into a pipe
+Bring a prepared ISOLINUX tree onto media and make it bootable
+.br
+Operate on storage facilities other than optical drives
 .br
 Perform multi-session runs as of cdrtools traditions
 .br
@@ -2150,6 +2298,8 @@ Examples of input timestrings
 Incremental backup of a few directory trees
 .br
 Restore directory trees from a particular ISO session to disk
+.br
+Try to retrieve as many blocks as possible from a damaged media
 .SS
 .B As superuser learn about available drives
 Consider to give rw permissions to those users or groups
@@ -2289,7 +2439,28 @@ first and only session to the output drive.
 .br
  -commit -eject all
 .SS
-.B Write a ISO image into a pipe
+.B Bring a prepared ISOLINUX tree onto media and make it bootable
+The user has already created a suitable file tree on disk and copied the
+ISOLINUX files into subdirectory ./boot/isolinux of that tree.
+Now xorriso can burn an El Torito bootable media:
+.br
+\fB$\fR xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -blank as_needed \\
+.br
+   -map /home/me/ISOLINUX_prepared_tree / \\
+.br
+   -boot_image isolinux dir=/boot/isolinux
+.SS
+.B Operate on storage facilities other than optical drives
+Full read-write operation is possible with regular files and block devices:
+.br
+\fB$\fR xorriso -dev stdio:/tmp/regular_file ...
+.br
+Other writeable file types are supported write-only:
+.br
+\fB$\fR xorriso -outdev stdio:/tmp/named_pipe ...
+.br
+Among the write-only drives is standard output:
+.br
 \fB$\fR xorriso -outdev - \\
 .br
  ...
@@ -2415,18 +2586,16 @@ the two disk trees to the media is desired. Begin with blank media and start
 a new blank media when the run fails due to lack of remaining space on
 the old one.
 .br
-This makes most sense with backups on non-erasable media like CD-R,
-DVD-R, DVD+R if the full backup leaves substantial remaining capacity
+This makes sense if the full backup leaves substantial remaining capacity
 on media and if the expected changes are much smaller than the full backup.
 An update run will probably save no time but last longer than a full backup.
-Another good reason may be given if read speed is much higher than write speed.
 .br 
 With \fBmount\fR option \fB"sbsector="\fR it is possible to access the session
 trees which represent the older backup versions. With CD media, Linux mount
 accepts session numbers directly by its option "session=".
 .br
 Multi-session media and most overwriteable media written by xorriso can tell
-the sbsector of a session by xorriso option -toc.
+the sbsectors of their sessions by xorriso option -toc.
 .br
 Sessions on multi-session media are separated by several MB of unused blocks.
 So with small sessions the payload capacity can become substantially lower
@@ -2498,7 +2667,7 @@ to read and execute lines from the following files:
 .br
 The files are read in the sequence given above, but none of them is required
 for xorriso to function properly.
-.TP
+.SS
 .B Runtime control files:
 .br
 The default setting of -check_media abort_file= is:

xorriso/xorriso.h

@@ -305,6 +305,10 @@ int Xorriso_option_cdx(struct XorrisO *xorriso, char *disk_path, int flag);
 int Xorriso_option_check_media(struct XorrisO *xorriso,
                                int argc, char **argv, int *idx, int flag);
 
+/* Option -check_media_defaults */
+int Xorriso_option_check_media_defaults(struct XorrisO *xorriso,
+                                    int argc, char **argv, int *idx, int flag);
+
 /* Option -chgrp alias -chgrpi , chgrp_r alias chgrpi */
 /* @param flag bit0=recursive (-chgrp_r)
 */
@@ -410,6 +414,10 @@ int Xorriso_option_error_behavior(struct XorrisO *xorriso,
 int Xorriso_option_extract(struct XorrisO *xorriso, char *disk_path,
                        char *iso_path, int flag);
 
+/* Option -extract_cut */
+int Xorriso_option_extract_cut(struct XorrisO *xorriso, char *iso_rr_path,
+                          char *start, char *count, char *disk_path, int flag);
+
 /* Option -follow */
 int Xorriso_option_follow(struct XorrisO *xorriso, char *mode, int flag);
 
@@ -443,6 +451,10 @@ int Xorriso_option_iso_rr_pattern(struct XorrisO *xorriso, char *mode,
 /* Option -joliet "on"|"off" */
 int Xorriso_option_joliet(struct XorrisO *xorriso, char *mode, int flag);
 
+/* Option -list_delimiter */
+int Xorriso_option_list_delimiter(struct XorrisO *xorriso, char *text,
+                                  int flag);
+
 /* Option -list_formats */
 int Xorriso_option_list_formats(struct XorrisO *xorriso, int flag);
 

xorriso/xorriso_eng.html

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 <P>
 <H2>Purpose:</H2>
-xorriso maps file objects from POSIX compliant filesystems
+xorriso copies 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
@@ -60,15 +60,15 @@ and to MMC-5 for DVD or BD).
 GPL software included:<BR>
 </H2>
 <DL>
-<DT>libburn-0.5.3</DT>
+<DT>libburn-0.5.5</DT>
 <DD>reads and writes data from and to CD, DVD, BD-RE.</DD>
 <DD>(founded by Derek Foreman and Ben Jansens,
-furthered since August 2006 by
+developed and maintained since August 2006 by
 Thomas Schmitt from team of libburnia-project.org)</DD>
-<DT>libisofs-0.6.6</DT>
+<DT>libisofs-0.6.10</DT>
 <DD>operates on ISO 9660 filesystem images.</DD>
 <DD>(By Vreixo Formoso and Mario Danic from team of libburnia-project.org)</DD>
-<DT>libisoburn-0.2.4</DT>
+<DT>libisoburn-0.2.8</DT>
 <DD>coordinates libburn and libisofs, emulates multi-session where needed.</DD>
 <DD>(By Vreixo Formoso and Thomas Schmitt
 from team of libburnia-project.org)</DD>
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ Writes result as completely new image or as add-on session
 to optical media or filesystem objects.
 </LI>
 <LI>
+Can activate ISOLINUX boot images by El Torito boot record.
+</LI>
+<LI>
 Can perform multi-session tasks as emulation of mkisofs and cdrecord.
 </LI>
 <LI>
@@ -129,9 +132,6 @@ Reads its instructions from command line arguments, dialog, and batch files.
 <LI>
 Provides navigation commands for interactive ISO image manipulation.
 </LI>
-<LI>
-Adjustable thresholds for abort, exit value, and problem reporting.
-</LI>
 
 </UL>
 </P>
@@ -141,6 +141,11 @@ Adjustable thresholds for abort, exit value, and problem reporting.
 <DL>
 <DT>Get an overview of drives and their addresses</DT>
 <DD>#<KBD>&nbsp;xorriso -devices</KBD></DD>
+<DD><KBD>...</KBD></DD>
+<DD><KBD>0  -dev '/dev/sr0'  rwrw-- :  'TSSTcorp' 'CDDVDW SH-S203B'</KBD></DD>
+<DD><KBD>1  -dev '/dev/scd1' rwrw-- :  'PHILIPS ' 'SPD3300L'</KBD></DD>
+<DD><KBD>2  -dev '/dev/hda'  rwrw-- :  'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8162B'</KBD></DD>
+<DD><KBD>...</KBD></DD>
 <DT>Being superuser avoids permission problems with /dev/srN resp. /dev/hdX .
 </DT>
 <DT>Ordinary users should then get granted rw access to the /dev files
@@ -169,7 +174,7 @@ eventually prepare yet unused BD-RE:</DT>
 <DD>$<KBD>&nbsp;xorriso -dev /dev/sr0 -add /home/me/sounds /home/me/pictures
 </KBD></DD>
 
-<DT>Check the result:</DT>
+<DT>Have a look at the result:</DT>
 <DD>$<KBD>&nbsp;xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -du / -- -toc 2>&amp;1 | less</KBD></DD>
 
 <DT>
@@ -274,6 +279,29 @@ with ".o" or ".swp" which are excluded by options -not_leaf.
 <HR>
 </DT>
 
+<DT>
+After the user has already created a suitable file tree on disk
+and copied the ISOLINUX files into subdirectory ./boot/isolinux of
+that tree, xorriso can burn an El Torito bootable media:
+</DT>
+<DD>$<KBD>&nbsp;xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -blank as_needed \</KBD></DD>
+<DD><KBD>&nbsp;&nbsp; -map /home/me/ISOLINUX_prepared_tree / \</KBD></DD>
+<DD><KBD>&nbsp;&nbsp; -boot_image isolinux dir=/boot/isolinux</KBD></DD>
+
+<DT>
+<HR>
+</DT>
+
+<DT>ISO images may not only be stored on optical media but also in
+regular disk files or block devices for full multi-session operation.
+The prefix &quot;stdio:&quot; indicates that normal file operations are
+desired rather than MMC drive commands:
+</DT>
+<DD>$<KBD>&nbsp;xorriso -dev stdio:/tmp/regular_file ...other.options...</DD>
+
+<DT>Other file types are suitable only for writing but not for reading:</DT>
+<DD>$<KBD>&nbsp;xorriso -outdev stdio:/tmp/named_pipe ...other.options...</DD>
+
 <DT>In batch mode it is possible to operate xorriso in a pipeline
 with an external consumer of the generated ISO image. Any message
 output will be redirected to stderr in this case.</DT>
@@ -301,14 +329,17 @@ One may switch from mkisofs emulation to xorriso's own command mode:
 <HR>
 </DT>
 
-<DT>Enable reverse operation of xorriso and copy some files and a tree to disk:
+<DT>If for any reason the reading operating system mishandles the ISO image
+or some files in it, one may enable reverse operation of xorriso and copy
+files or trees to disk:
 <DD>$<KBD>&nbsp;xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 \</KBD></DD>
 <DD><KBD>&nbsp;&nbsp; -osirrox on \</KBD></DD>
-<DD><KBD>&nbsp;&nbsp; -cpx /pictures/private/horses*/*buttercup* \</KBD></DD>
+<DD><KBD>&nbsp;&nbsp; -cpx '/pictures/private/horses*/*buttercup*' \</KBD></DD>
 <DD><KBD>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; /home/her/buttercup_dir -- \</KBD>
 <DD><KBD>&nbsp;&nbsp; -extract /sounds /home/her/sounds_from_me</KBD></DD>
 </DD>
-
+<DT>Consider to enter dialog mode and use commands like
+<KBD>-cd , -du , -lsl , -find<KBD>.
 <DT>
 <HR>
 </DT>
@@ -332,8 +363,8 @@ are interested in using BD-R media.
 <P>
 <DL>
 <DT><H3>Download as source code (see README):</H3></DT>
-<DD><A HREF="xorriso-0.2.4.pl00.tar.gz">xorriso-0.2.4.pl00.tar.gz</A>
-(1040 KB).
+<DD><A HREF="xorriso-0.2.8.pl00.tar.gz">xorriso-0.2.8.pl00.tar.gz</A>
+(1050 KB).
 </DD>
 </DL>
 </DD>
@@ -357,29 +388,26 @@ an <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org/">Open Source</A> approved license</DD>
 </P>
 
 <HR>
-<P>
-Bug fixes towards xorriso-0.2.2.pl01:
-<UL>
 
+<P>
+Bug fixes towards xorriso-0.2.6.pl00:
+<UL>
+<LI>A potential buffer overflow has been fixed</LI>
+<LI>-follow "link" attributed random target filenames to looping links</LI>
+<LI>-as mkisofs -iso-level was accused to be an unknown option</LI>
+<!--
 <LI>- none -</LI>
+-->
 
 </UL>
 </P>
+
 <P>
-Enhancements towards previous stable version xorriso-0.2.2.pl01:
+Enhancements towards previous stable version xorriso-0.2.4.pl00:
 <UL>
 
-<LI>
-Included libburn has enhanced Linux drive access and listing code
-</LI>
-<LI>
-New option -check_media
-</LI>
-<LI>
-New -find test -damaged, new -find actions "report_damage", "report_lba"
-</LI>
-<LI>
-New -error_behavior occasion "file_extraction"
+<LI>Ability to write and maintain bootable ISO images based on ISOLINUX</LI>
+<LI>New ./configure option --disable-libreadline to make binary more portable
 </LI>
 
 </UL>
@@ -389,15 +417,15 @@ New -error_behavior occasion "file_extraction"
 
 <P>
 <DL>
-<DT><H3>Development snapshot, version 0.2.5 :</H3></DT>
-<DD>Bug fixes towards xorriso-0.2.4.pl00:
+<DT><H3>Development snapshot, version 0.2.9 :</H3></DT>
+<DD>Bug fixes towards xorriso-0.2.8.pl00:
 <UL>
 <LI>- none yet -</LI>
 <!-- 
  -->
 </UL>
 </DD>
-<DD>Enhancements towards stable version 0.2.4.pl00:
+<DD>Enhancements towards stable version 0.2.8.pl00:
 <UL>
 <LI>- none yet -</LI>
 <!-- 
@@ -405,9 +433,9 @@ New -error_behavior occasion "file_extraction"
 </UL>
 </DD>
 <DD>&nbsp;</DD>
-<DD><A HREF="README_xorriso_devel">README 0.2.5</A>
-<DD><A HREF="xorriso_help_devel">xorriso_0.2.5 -help</A></DD>
-<DD><A HREF="man_1_xorriso_devel.html">man xorriso (as of 0.2.5)</A></DD>
+<DD><A HREF="README_xorriso_devel">README 0.2.9</A>
+<DD><A HREF="xorriso_help_devel">xorriso_0.2.9 -help</A></DD>
+<DD><A HREF="man_1_xorriso_devel.html">man xorriso (as of 0.2.9)</A></DD>
 <DD>&nbsp;</DD>
 <DT>If you want to distribute development versions of xorriso, then use
 this tarball which produces static linking between xorriso and the
@@ -417,8 +445,8 @@ libburnia libraries.
 installation see README)
 </DD>
 <DD>
-<A HREF="xorriso-0.2.5.tar.gz">xorriso-0.2.5.tar.gz</A>
-(1040 KB).
+<A HREF="xorriso-0.2.9.tar.gz">xorriso-0.2.9.tar.gz</A>
+(1050 KB).
 </DD>
 <DT>A dynamically linked development version of xorriso can be obtained
 from repositories of

xorriso/xorriso_private.h

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #ifndef Xorriso_private_includeD
 #define Xorriso_private_includeD yes
 
-#define Xorriso_program_versioN "0.2.4"
+#define Xorriso_program_versioN "0.2.8"
 
 /** The source code release timestamp */
 #include "xorriso_timestamp.h"
@@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ struct SectorbitmaP;      /* Distiniction between valid and invalid sectors */
 #define Xorriso_rc_nuM 4
 
 
+/* Default setting for the size limit of single data files:
+   100 extents with 4 GB - 2 kB each = 400 GB - 200 kB
+*/
+#define Xorriso_default_file_size_limiT \
+        (((off_t) 400) * ((off_t) 1024*1024*1024) - (off_t) 204800)
+
+
 struct XorrisO { /* the global context of xorriso */
 
  int libs_are_started;
@@ -92,6 +99,8 @@ struct XorrisO { /* the global context of xorriso */
  int add_plainly;
  off_t split_size;
 
+ char list_delimiter[81];
+
  /* >>> put libisofs aspects here <<< */
 
  int do_joliet;
@@ -125,6 +134,8 @@ struct XorrisO { /* the global context of xorriso */
 
  int toc_emulation_flag; /* bit0= bit3 for isoburn_drive_aquire()
                                   scan -ROM profiles for ISO sessions
+                            bit1= bit4 for isoburn_drive_aquire()
+                                  do not emulate TOC on overwriteable media
                          */
 
  int image_start_mode;  /* From what address to load the ISO image
@@ -151,6 +162,7 @@ struct XorrisO { /* the global context of xorriso */
  int volset_change_pending; /* whether -commit would make sense */
  int no_volset_present;     /* set to 1 on first failure */
 
+ struct CheckmediajoB *check_media_default;
  struct SectorbitmaP *in_sector_map; /* eventual sector validity bitmap */
 
 
@@ -175,6 +187,13 @@ struct XorrisO { /* the global context of xorriso */
 
  int keep_boot_image;
  int patch_isolinux_image;
+ char boot_image_bin_path[SfileadrL];
+ int boot_image_emul; /* 0=no emulation
+                        (1=emulation as hard disk)
+                        (2=emulation as floppy)
+                      */
+ char boot_image_cat_path[SfileadrL];
+ off_t boot_image_load_size;
 
 
  /* XORRISO options */
@@ -188,7 +207,7 @@ struct XorrisO { /* the global context of xorriso */
                              of self-owned directories during restore
                         */
 
- int dialog;
+ int dialog;  /* 0=off , 1=single-line , 2=multi-line */
 
 
  /* Pattern matching facility. It still carries legacy from scdbackup/askme.c
@@ -215,6 +234,8 @@ struct XorrisO { /* the global context of xorriso */
 
  int temp_mem_limit;
 
+ off_t file_size_limit;
+
  struct ExclusionS *disk_exclusions;
  int disk_excl_mode; /* bit0= on (else off)
                         bit1= parameter too (else rekursion only)
@@ -254,7 +275,7 @@ struct XorrisO { /* the global context of xorriso */
  FILE *errfile_fp;
 
  int img_read_error_mode; /* 0=best_effort , 1=failure , 2=fatal */
- int extract_error_mode; /* 0=(not yet: best_effort) , 1=keep , 2=delete */
+ int extract_error_mode; /* 0=best_effort , 1=keep , 2=delete */
 
  char return_with_text[20];
  int return_with_severity;
@@ -303,7 +324,7 @@ struct XorrisO { /* the global context of xorriso */
  struct PermiteM *perm_stack; /* Temporarily altered dir access permissions */
 
  /* result (stdout, R: ) */
- char result_line[5*SfileadrL];
+ char result_line[10*SfileadrL];
  int result_line_counter;
  int result_page_counter;
  int result_open_line_len;
@@ -646,6 +667,8 @@ int Findjob_get_start_path(struct FindjoB *o, char **start_path, int flag);
 int Findjob_get_lba_damage_filter(struct FindjoB *o, int *start_lba,
                                   int *end_lba, int *damage_filter, int flag);
 
+int Findjob_get_commit_filter(struct FindjoB *o, int *commit_filter, int flag);
+
 
 struct SplitparT;
 
@@ -711,6 +734,8 @@ int Checkmediajob_new(struct CheckmediajoB **o, int flag);
 
 int Checkmediajob_destroy(struct CheckmediajoB **o, int flag);
 
+int Checkmediajob_copy(struct CheckmediajoB *from, struct CheckmediajoB *to,
+                       int flag);
 
 int Sectorbitmap_new(struct SectorbitmaP **o, int sectors, int sector_size,
                      int flag);

xorriso/xorriso_timestamp.h

@@ -1 +1 @@
-#define Xorriso_timestamP "2008.08.24.160001"
+#define Xorriso_timestamP "2008.10.12.120001"

xorriso/xorrisoburn.h

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 */
 #define xorriso_libisoburn_req_major  0
 #define xorriso_libisoburn_req_minor  2
-#define xorriso_libisoburn_req_micro  4
+#define xorriso_libisoburn_req_micro  8
 
 int Xorriso_startup_libraries(struct XorrisO *xorriso, int flag);
 
@@ -310,6 +310,8 @@ struct CheckmediajoB {
 
  char data_to_path[SfileadrL];
  int data_to_fd;
+ off_t data_to_offset; /* usually 0 with image copy, negative with file copy */
+ off_t data_to_limit;  /* used with file copy */
  int patch_lba0;
  int patch_lba0_msc1;
 
@@ -332,6 +334,16 @@ struct CheckmediajoB {
 int Xorriso_check_media(struct XorrisO *xorriso, struct SpotlisT **spotlist,
                         struct CheckmediajoB *job, int flag);
 
+int Xorriso_extract_cut(struct XorrisO *xorriso,
+                        char *img_path, char *disk_path,
+                        off_t img_offset, off_t bytes, int flag);
+
+
+/* A pseudo file type for El-Torito bootsectors as in man 2 stat :
+   For now take the highest possible value.
+*/
+#define Xorriso_IFBOOT S_IFMT
+
 
 #endif /* Xorrisoburn_includeD */