fwcontrol -R is broken, need help, urgent

[Kazumaro Aoki]

From: "Dieter BSD" <dieterbsd at engineer.com>
Subject: fwcontrol -R is broken, need help, urgent
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:59:01 +0000

> "fwcontrol -R foo.dv" gives:
> fwcontrol: detect_recv_fn: ioctl FW_SSTBUF: Bad file descriptor
> 
> I tried both controllers (-u 0, -u 1), same result.
> 
> I know that -R worked under 6.x with the VIA controller.
> (Still can't do -S with the VIA due to the cyclemaster PR.)
> I'm fairly sure that -R worked with the NEC under 6.x and 7.x.

I met the same problem, and I use fwcontrol in 6R on 8R box.
Fortunately, I noticed the problem when I used 6R on a different PC,
and I made the statically linked fwcontrol binary on 6R machine, and I
kept it.

Kazumaro