Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261952AbUDHQXk (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2004 12:23:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262005AbUDHQXk (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2004 12:23:40 -0400 Received: from tantale.fifi.org ([216.27.190.146]:41371 "EHLO tantale.fifi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261952AbUDHQXi (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2004 12:23:38 -0400 To: Paul Eggert Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org, Andy Isaacson , Andrew Morton , Bruce Allen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dd PATCH: add conv=direct References: <87r7uzlzz7.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> Mail-Copies-To: nobody From: Philippe Troin Date: 08 Apr 2004 09:23:21 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87r7uzlzz7.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> Message-ID: <87vfka30cm.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 858 Lines: 17 Paul Eggert writes: > dd has new iflags= and oflags= options with the following flags: > > append append mode (makes sense for output file only) > direct use direct I/O for data > dsync use synchronized I/O for data > sync likewise, but also for metadata > nonblock use non-blocking I/O > nofollow do not follow symlinks > noctty do not assign controlling terminal from file noctty definitely seems overkill... I can't see why dd would ever want to open a file without O_NOCTTY. On systems where O_NOCTTY makes sense (SvR4) that is. Phil. - 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/