On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Thomas Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > > I'd have to considerably ramp up my knowledge on those, as it is > currently > > nil... > > I have a note sheet with pointers into ECMA-167 and UDF-2.60 and lots of > question marks. (Plus a copy of the interesting stair shaped ASCII painting > at the beginning of libcdio's udf_fs.c) > > If you happen to need a description of UDF, then we have a common > interest and should cooperate on collecting facts. (E.g. i only have > UDFs from mkisofs and from the Linux kernel. The specs leave enough > room for surprises in examples from other producers.) > > > > Have you had a look at what 7-zip source does (7z/CPP/7zip/Archive/Udf/)? > > That would be a source of information for the description. > Google found me > https://bitbucket.org/gongminmin/klayge/src/606b64ac900a/External/7z/CPP/7zip/Archive/Udf > ... ahum ... the stair painting seems to fit into UdfIn.cpp > enum EDescriptorType. (Riddling about libcdio "Root Dir File Entry" and > "File data", though.) > > C++ is hard to decode for me. Well, if nothing else helps, one will have > to determine what this code does and how it relates to the specs. > > First one should explore (exploit ?) the libcdio code, of course. > Linux kernel code and docs could be interesting too. > > > From such a description it would be quite straightforward to fix problems > in libcdio or to implement own UDF software. > And I don't mind helping out in little ways. But others have to take the lead on this, especially as I have no personal interest or need for UDF support. (Again with respect to helping out in little ways, I'll point to the recent addition of abs_path.c for greenleon which I did because of his contribution toward fixing up cd-text - something I also have no personal interest or need for.) > > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas > > >
