Phillip Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can't open() and write() to a directory, so how does it make > any sense to ask dd to set O_DIRECTORY?
You can open a directory without writing to it. Something like this: $ mkdir foo $ dd if=foo iflag=directory count=0 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 2e-05 seconds, 0 B/s You can think of this as a way to do a "test -d foo && test -r foo" atomically, without race conditions. Admittedly this is somewhat twisted, but the new documentation does say that iflag=directory is of "limited utility".... _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
