From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>
Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org, Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Bruce Allen <ballen@gravity.phys.uwm.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dd PATCH: add conv=direct
Date: 08 Apr 2004 09:23:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vfka30cm.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r7uzlzz7.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu>
Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-08 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-06 22:03 dd PATCH: add conv=direct Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 0:33 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 16:21 ` Bruce Allen
2004-04-07 16:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 17:31 ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 18:18 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 19:24 ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 19:34 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 19:47 ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 20:03 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 20:43 ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 21:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-04-07 21:35 ` Bruce Allen
2004-04-08 6:56 ` Paul Eggert
2004-04-08 11:07 ` Jim Meyering
2004-04-08 19:32 ` Paul Eggert
2004-04-08 19:51 ` Paul Jarc
2004-04-08 21:34 ` Jim Meyering
2004-04-08 16:23 ` Philippe Troin [this message]
2004-04-08 20:20 ` dd patch to remove noctty Paul Eggert
2004-04-08 21:40 ` Jim Meyering
2004-04-09 0:37 ` dd PATCH: add conv=direct Anton Blanchard
2004-04-09 1:42 ` Wim Coekaerts
2004-04-10 21:28 ` Jim Meyering
2004-04-07 20:46 ` Paul Eggert
2004-04-07 21:06 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 21:09 ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 19:12 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-04-07 20:14 ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 22:02 ` Nathan Straz
2004-04-07 22:09 ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-08 11:44 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
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