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From: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
To: bug-coreutils@gnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dd PATCH: add conv=direct
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:09:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040407220928.GI2814@hexapodia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040407220224.GA26850@sgi.com>

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:02:24PM -0500, Nathan Straz wrote:
> 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?

There's already conv=notrunc which means "open without O_TRUNC".  I
agree that it's a nonintuitive interface, but then, the entire dd(1)
command line is.

> Have you looked at lmdd?  It supports O_DIRECT and many other things not
> in the standard dd.

Wasn't aware of that one.  Thanks for the pointer.

-andy

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-07 22:09 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
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 [this message]
2004-04-08 11:44     ` Miquel van Smoorenburg

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