Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261162AbUDGWCu (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 18:02:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264200AbUDGWCt (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 18:02:49 -0400 Received: from cfcafw.sgi.com ([198.149.23.1]:9343 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261162AbUDGWCs (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 18:02:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:02:24 -0500 From: Nathan Straz To: Andy Isaacson Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dd PATCH: add conv=direct Message-ID: <20040407220224.GA26850@sgi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andy Isaacson , bug-coreutils@gnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040406220358.GE4828@hexapodia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040406220358.GE4828@hexapodia.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 924 Lines: 21 On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:03:58PM -0500, Andy Isaacson wrote: > Linux-kernel: is this patch horribly wrong? ... > to force O_DIRECT. The enclosed patch adds a "conv=direct" flag to > enable this usage. Adding the functionality to conv= doesn't seem right to me. conv= is for converting the data in some way. This is just changing the way data is written. Right? Have you looked at lmdd? It supports O_DIRECT and many other things not in the standard dd. -- Nate Straz nstraz@sgi.com sgi, inc http://www.sgi.com/ Linux Test Project http://ltp.sf.net/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/