cvs commit: src/lib/libarchive Makefile archive.h.in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c

[Robert Watson]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Tim Kientzle wrote:

>   First cut support for extracting from ISO9660 disk images.
>   This seems to be able to extract a TOC and extract files from
>   the couple of ISO images I've tested it with.
>   
>   Treat this as experimental proof-of-concept code for the
>   moment.  There are still a bunch of debug messages (there
>   are a few oddities in ISO9660 that I haven't yet figured
>   out how to handle), a lot of bugs to be addressed (this
>   code leaks memory very badly), and a lot of missing features (no
>   Rockridge support, in particular).  I'd appreciate
>   feedback from anyone who understands ISO9660 format
>   better than I do. ;-)

Very cool -- finally we can extract files from install CD's without root
privilege :-).  This will be very useful.

Robert N M Watson