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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.

  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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