Re: Perl ioctl/cdio problems

[Nikolay Sturm <Nikolay_(_dot_)_Sturm_(_at_)_desy_(_dot_)_de>]

* Jeff Bachtel <jeff_(_at_)_cepheid_(_dot_)_org> [2001-07-04]:
> I'm attempting to write a perl script that uses the CDDB library with
> the data gathered from a live cd in the drive. It appears that the

Ah, reinventing the wheel. :-) Have a look at 

http://www.liacs.nl/~jvhemert/disc-cover/

The stable version does exactly what you want to do, use ioctls and be
unportable (but it's Linux unportable). The current developer version is
more advanced and uses Audio::CD which uses libcdaudio and is thus
portable. I have a port of the current version on my homepage, but as
this version has problems with unknown CDs (it does not create an empty
file were you can enter the information), I have to wait for another
version to get the port committed.

bye,

Nikolay

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