Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > noctty definitely seems overkill... I can't see why dd would ever want > to open a file without O_NOCTTY.
Good point; it's just a confusion for the user. Here's a patch to cause dd to always use O_NOCTTY. If someone ever needs it the other way (not likely) I suppose we can add a "ctty" flag. 2004-04-08 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * NEWS: Remove noctty flag from dd. Suggested by Philippe Troin. * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Likewise. * src/shred.c (O_NOCTTY): Remove redundant decl. * src/dd.c (flags, usage): Remove noctty flag. (main): Always use O_NOCTTY when opening files. Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /home/meyering/coreutils/cu/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.199 diff -p -u -r1.199 NEWS --- NEWS 8 Apr 2004 10:25:27 -0000 1.199 +++ NEWS 8 Apr 2004 20:04:42 -0000 @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS 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 stty now provides support (iutf8) for setting UTF-8 input mode. Index: doc/coreutils.texi =================================================================== RCS file: /home/meyering/coreutils/cu/doc/coreutils.texi,v retrieving revision 1.176 diff -p -u -r1.176 coreutils.texi --- doc/coreutils.texi 8 Apr 2004 15:35:40 -0000 1.176 +++ doc/coreutils.texi 8 Apr 2004 20:05:38 -0000 @@ -6666,18 +6666,12 @@ Use non-blocking I/O. @cindex symbolic links, following Do not follow symbolic links. [EMAIL PROTECTED] noctty [EMAIL PROTECTED] noctty [EMAIL PROTECTED] controlling terminal -Do not assign the file to be a controlling terminal for @command{dd}. -This has no effect when the file is not a terminal. - @end table These flags are not supported on all systems, and @samp{dd} rejects attempts to use them when they are not supported. When reading from -standard input or writing to standard output, the @samp{nofollow} and [EMAIL PROTECTED] flags should not be specified, and the other flags +standard input or writing to standard output, the @samp{nofollow} flag +should not be specified, and the other flags (e.g., @samp{nonblock}) can affect how other processes behave with the affected file descriptors, even after @command{dd} exits. Index: src/shred.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/meyering/coreutils/cu/src/shred.c,v retrieving revision 1.84 diff -p -u -r1.84 shred.c --- src/shred.c 21 Jan 2004 23:39:34 -0000 1.84 +++ src/shred.c 8 Apr 2004 20:04:45 -0000 @@ -110,10 +110,6 @@ #include "quotearg.h" /* For quotearg_colon */ #include "quote.h" /* For quotearg_colon */ -#ifndef O_NOCTTY -# define O_NOCTTY 0 /* This is a very optional frill */ -#endif - #define DEFAULT_PASSES 25 /* Default */ /* How many seconds to wait before checking whether to output another --- src/dd.c-bak Thu Apr 8 12:17:02 2004 +++ src/dd.c Thu Apr 8 13:18:30 2004 @@ -192,7 +192,6 @@ static struct symbol_value const flags[] {"append", O_APPEND}, {"direct", O_DIRECT}, {"dsync", O_DSYNC}, - {"noctty", O_NOCTTY}, {"nofollow", O_NOFOLLOW}, {"nonblock", O_NONBLOCK}, {"sync", O_SYNC}, @@ -384,9 +383,6 @@ Each FLAG symbol may be:\n\ fputs (_(" nonblock use non-blocking I/O\n"), stdout); if (O_NOFOLLOW) fputs (_(" nofollow do not follow symlinks\n"), stdout); - if (O_NOCTTY) - fputs (_(" noctty do not assign controlling terminal from file\n"), - stdout); fputs (_("\ \n\ Note that sending a SIGUSR1 signal to a running `dd' process makes it\n\ @@ -1300,7 +1296,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) } else { - if (open_fd (STDIN_FILENO, input_file, O_RDONLY | input_flags, 0) < 0) + int opts = input_flags | O_NOCTTY; + if (open_fd (STDIN_FILENO, input_file, O_RDONLY | opts, 0) < 0) error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("opening %s"), quote (input_file)); } @@ -1313,7 +1310,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) { mode_t perms = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IWGRP | S_IROTH | S_IWOTH; int opts - = (output_flags + = (output_flags | O_NOCTTY | (conversions_mask & C_NOCREAT ? 0 : O_CREAT) | (conversions_mask & C_EXCL ? O_EXCL : 0) | (seek_records || (conversions_mask & C_NOTRUNC) ? 0 : O_TRUNC)); _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils