Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices | Date | Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:34:48 -0500 (CDT) | From | (Bob Tracy) |
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Bill Davidsen wrote: > David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:12 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > >>If you are right, why then is SuSE removing the warnings in cdrecord > >>that are there to tell the user that cdrecord is running with insufficient > >>privilleges? > > > > > > Because those warnings are bogus, put there by someone who likes to > > complain about things that are not _really_ a problem? > > Actually they are a problem on a loaded system, it's just that > developers seem to run system with enough power to avoid the issues. And > if you have a system using burn-free all the time you do use more track > and the occasional device won't read it.
Another possible reason for removing the warnings (which I encountered while trying out the latest xcdroast today): any output to stderr during the burn is flagged by the wrapper as an error, which violates the principle of least astonishment from a user perspective. In other words, no distinction is made between warnings and errors before announcing an error has occurred.
Understanding this, it's easy enough to scan the expanded output and see what really happened. FWIW, I don't think removing the warnings to avoid this issue is the correct solution.
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