On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:27:15 -0500 "Stephen Wittig" <nofx911@gmail.com>
wrote:
> The only things that I can guess are that it is trying to update
> something in "/proc" or it needs to load a kernel module before
> writing.

Why would cdrecord want to update anything in /proc? There is no
informatiom that cdrecord uses. And by the way, strace didn't show
anything helpful.

> Just for fun - try burning a disk as root. Then try burning another
> dist as a non-root user.

I can not burn CDs as a non-root user (i.e. unprivileged; I can burn
with sudo). That's why I wrote the email in the first place. ;-)


Cheers,
Renat

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