xorrisofs: Xorriso
4 Relation to program xorriso
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'xorrisofs' is actually a command mode of program *xorriso*, which gets
entered either by xorriso command "-as mkisofs" or by starting the
program by one of the names "xorrisofs", "mkisofs", "genisoimage", or
"genisofs".
This command mode can be left by argument "--" which leads to generic
xorriso command mode. See *man xorriso* for its description.
xorriso performs image reading and writing by help of libburn, which
is mainly intended for optical drives, but also operates on all POSIX
file types except directories.
The program messages call any image file a "drive". File types which
are not supported for reading are reported as "blank". The reported
free media space may be quite fictional.
Nevertheless 'xorrisofs' does not operate directly on optical drives,
but rather forces libburn to regard them as general device files. So
for writing of sequential optical media (CD, DVD-R, DVD+R, BD-R) one
will have to use a burn program. E.g the cdrecord emulation of xorriso.
See EXAMPLES.
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