Re: toolchain/33924: feature request: makefs(8) should output blocks used by each file

[Thorsten Glaser <tg%mirbsd.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/33924; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thorsten Glaser <tg%mirbsd.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: toolchain/33924: feature request: makefs(8) should output blocks
 used by each file
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:44:17 +0000 (UTC)

 Hello,
 
 please feel free to close this PR. This feature request has been super-
 seded by the existence of http://www.mirbsd.org/man1/getextent_cd9660 =E2=
 =80=93
 source at http://cvs.mirbsd.de/src/usr.sbin/getextent_cd9660/
 
 Now if you people would please focus on toolchain/33925 which is really
 critical for Live CDs (when using =E2=80=9C-t cd9660=E2=80=9D stops at the =
 assertion in
 makefs/cd9660.c:cd9660_sorted_child_insert(), probably due to too deep
 directory nesting, even using =E2=80=9C-o allow-deep-trees=E2=80=9D did not=
  help, so I
 have to use 4.2FFS for it) where the image size, unlike floppies, has
 not been decided upon prior to image creation.
 
 TIA,
 //mirabilos
 --=20
 Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh=
 -
 ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant
 detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions
 in English text in bold font.=09-- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C"