Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it now defaults to the underlying mount mode when the user does not
specify binary or text. In my opinion, dd should default to binary
when neither text nor binary is specified
Hmm, overriding the explicit advice of the system administrator?
How common is
Paul Eggert wrote:
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it now defaults to the underlying mount mode when the user does not
specify binary or text. In my opinion, dd should default to binary
when neither text nor binary is specified
Hmm, overriding the explicit advice of the system
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 08:02:30AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it now defaults to the underlying mount mode when the user does not
specify binary or text. In my opinion, dd should default to binary
when neither text nor binary is specified
Hmm, overriding the
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According to Paul Eggert on 5/6/2005 12:01 PM:
That looks pretty complicated. How about if we just rely on open
and fcntl to do the work? If they don't work, they should.
I installed this into coreutils:
2005-05-06 Paul Eggert [EMAIL
2005-05-06 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* NEWS: dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags binary and text.
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document it.
* src/dd.c (flags, usage): Support it.
That's okay for a start, but it now defaults to the underlying mount mode
when the
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According to Brian Dessent on 5/6/2005 2:06 AM:
Sebastian Schuberth wrote:
my mounts are all text mode, i.e. the Default Text File
Type is DOS. Nevertheless, shouldn't
dd if=test_unix.txt of=text.txt
create an exact copy of test_unix.txt? It
Eric Blake wrote:
Predefining O_BINARY as the default input_flags and output_flags is a
stopgap measure. While it is fine for other programs, such as od, to
Doesn't that overly complicate things? Seems to me that whenever you
use dd you are interested in copying fixed record length data. It
That looks pretty complicated. How about if we just rely on open
and fcntl to do the work? If they don't work, they should.
I installed this into coreutils:
2005-05-06 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* NEWS: dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags binary and text.
*
