OK, some updates for 2021:
* genisoimage is officially marked "abandoned" and should not be used
(time stamps will start break come 2028; I've fixed the bug but there's
no genisoimage maintainer to update the program with the fix). See
https://wiki.debian.org/genisoimage for end-of-life notice
* As per that Wiki page, the official answer is to use xorrisofs, which
yes has fixed (or never had) this "blank sector" bug
* I have made my own fork of genisoimage, iso9660, which fixes this bug
and the bug with post-2027 timestamps: https://github.com/samboy/iso9660
- Sam
This behavior (or one very similar to it) appears to still be present,
five and a half years later. The patch still appears to apply (albeit
with considerable a offset) against current upstream SVN.
I have not managed to find any indication of what the reason for adding
these blank sectors is supposed to be. The code in question appears to
date all the way back to the original import of mkisofs into Subversion,
so there's no help there.
Any chance of either getting this patch applied, or at least figuring
out a reason why it would be a bad idea?
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