ide-cd problems

[Zinx Verituse]

I'm going to bump this topic a bit, since it's been a while..
There are still some issues with ide-cd's SG_IO, listed from
most important as percieved by me to least:

 * Read-only access grants you the ability to write/blank media in the drive
 * (with above) You can open the device only in read-only mode.
 * You can't open the device unless there is media in the drive
 * Still seems to be no way to specify scatter gather/dma buffers yourself,
   though I'm not entirely sure that matters anyway.

The read-only granting write/blank seems like a pretty serious security issue
to me.  Not being able to open the device without media is merely extremely
annoying (and I suspect fixing it would break a lot of programs).

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Zinx Verituse                                    http://zinx.xmms.org/
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