Re: [Bashburn-info] Copy Data CD to CD Issues

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

On Wednesday, Oct 1st 2008 at 05:26 -0000, quoth Nick Warne:

=>
=>I don't know what to do about this.  First issue, if you do not mount
=>the data CD to be copied (like I just forgot to do), the copy command
=>gets 'ignored' and the burn sequence then proceeds anyway.
=>
=>Next, I tried again with a mounted data CD.  This time the data is
=>ripped to *.iso in burn directory - BUT when completed, we are asked to
=>insert blank CD to copy to.  Well, you can't unless you go to another
=>terminal and umount the original data CD first.
=>
=>But if you mess about like this, it does work.
=>
=>I honestly don't know what to do here?

My time is limited here at work, but I can guess what's happening.

* The copy command is using globbing. Globbing is evil. We need to only 
copy files that are explicitly specified. If you copy by saying something 
like...

cp dir/* somewhere/

Then there's no way to detect that the cp didn't pick something up. We 
have to either verify that the disk is mounted and/or we have to always 
specify explict files. DEATH TO GLOBBING.

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