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From: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: need CD recording - rock ridge
Date: 15 Aug 1995 22:23:13 +0100
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In article <40p9b6$ign@kogwy.cc.keio.ac.jp>,
HOSOKAWA Tatsumi <hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> wrote:
>I tried to burn a CDROM with mkisofs yesterday.  But it seems to
>mistranslate the filename whose first character is "." (dot).  For
>example, ".xvpics" directory is translated into a "." only.  It means
>that the directory to which it belongs has two "." directories.

>I can mount it as rockridge filesystem, but the directory structure is
>totally corrupted.  The behavior of "cd ." or "cd .." is sometimes too
>weired.

We know - Jordan and I ran into this during the 2.0.5 release cycle, which
meant a sudden change to the ports structure (it used to have a directory
`.all' which had to be changed to `All' I seem to remember).

mkisofs is a real mess, and probably needs to be thrown out and re-written
from scratch, but seeing as how that is unlikely in the extreme, I believe
that people at Walnut Creek (who have a slight vested interest in making it
work) are looking at this...

Gary
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FreeBSD Core Member
E-Mail: Gary@Palmer.Demon.co.uk, gpalmer@FreeBSD.org