On Sun, Jul 7, 2024, at 10:40 AM, наб via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote: > Gamer moment: dd iflags=fullblock is wrong actually. > > Somehow, between the submission in 2011 and publication in 2024, > no-one in #406 > https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=406 > noticed they're calling it the wrong thing. > > It's iflag=. "\biflag\b" appears once in a manual quote, > so this doesn't appear to be deliberate; > everyone just assumed it's actually iflags= when it isn't. > The OP calls it iflags= and everyone just goes with it. > > This is, actually, good actually, IMO, > because I always misremember it at iflags= anyway, > so if I had precedent to tell padraig to make that an alias for iflag=, > then that'd be cool and good for me, personally. > > But I would be remiss to not note that Issue 8 standardises > the GNU system's, FreeBSD's, NetBSD's and the illumos gate's > iflag=fullblock as iflags=fullblock, > which therefore doesn't exist in /any/ implementation. > > Should I register an Objection-type bug on Mantis, or?
Stéphane has done this: https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1854 -- vq
