Responding to the message of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:45:39AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > > On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > >=20 > > > busybox dd does not produce output like GNU dd. > >=20 > > So you have specifics? I've not seen a bug report from you. > > well it at least didn't used to display any output. > > but parsing some basically informative verbosity output from a utility > is a damned fragile kludge of a way to do something, what if the > format of this output changes in the future?
Well, given that the output format is specified by SUSv2[1], it is more robust than you might think. Matt 1. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/dd.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
