[paranoia] The 'protected'-patch has a bug

Mikko Nummelin mnummeli at cc.hut.fi
Wed Nov 5 14:29:50 PST 2003



This message actually preceded my announce of the new patch, but for some
strange mail-server reasons went to the list hours later. The new patch

cdparanoia-III-mn2.patch.gz

which was attached earlier does not have this defect.

Mikko N.

<p>On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Mikko Nummelin wrote:

> WARNING:
>
> There has recently been some considerations about the patch which enables
> that '-P' switch, which in some cases helps reading TOC from Cactus Data
> Shield-protected discs and also changes the read command. Yesterday I
> stumbled across a bug in that patch, which means that it should not be
> applied to other than static builds, i.e. _DO NOT_ compile a paranoia
> library with it! The reason for this is that it changes the arguments of
> cdda_open, which means that some Linux packages (like MPlayer) are unable
> to compile correctly after that! I am currently effectively re-writing
> that patch to fix both this issue and separate the TOC read and read
> command switch features (as that also causes problems in some drives).
>
>
> Mikko Nummelin
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