J?rg: On 02/05/10 04:39, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Halton Huo<Halton.Huo at sun.com> wrote: >> For other disabled plugins, they are different story: >> - CD/DVD Creator >> Does not work at all, I explain the reason in ARC case and the email >> to Darren. > > It seems that a lot of software developed on Linux since ~ 5 years (when a > design based security problem was introduced into Linux) now tries to ignore > the UNIX privilege separation rules and includes direct calls to SCSI > commands. > This causes four major problems: > > - missing privilege separation forces the GUI to be installed suid root > ot comparable. > > - the SCSI transport code is written in a 100% non-portable way although > there is a 100% portable library (libscg) that is e.g. used by cdrtools. > > - the SCSI transport code is based on /dev/* addressing although a > majority of platforms does not support such addressing. > > - The delivered SCSI code only handles a few general cases and typically > fails with drives that have firmware bugs. Workarounds for all known > firmware bugs exist in cdrtools, so calling cdrtools programs would > avoid all problems. > > If your actual problem related to what I wrote?
Yes, please refer to LSARC/2009/201 "Update to Brasero 2.25.x". --- Brian
