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To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
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Subject: Re: new tool:  blktool
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 01:54:57 +0200
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Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> writes:

> hdparm works for some SCSI devices already, and support for
> more is already on the way.  I imagine I can have it handle
> whatever new ioctls() are being provided from libata as well.

I can see Jeff's point that the one letter options are not 
very nice (I often have to look them up in the man page too ...) 
And it's probably true that it will soon run out of letters.

Any chance you could add GNU style long options using getopt_long()?

-Andi