On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:02:24PM -0500, Nathan Straz wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:03:58PM -0500, Andy Isaacson wrote: > > Linux-kernel: is this patch horribly wrong? > ... > > to force O_DIRECT. The enclosed patch adds a "conv=direct" flag to > > enable this usage. > > Adding the functionality to conv= doesn't seem right to me. conv= is > for converting the data in some way. This is just changing the way data > is written. Right?
There's already conv=notrunc which means "open without O_TRUNC". I agree that it's a nonintuitive interface, but then, the entire dd(1) command line is. > Have you looked at lmdd? It supports O_DIRECT and many other things not > in the standard dd. Wasn't aware of that one. Thanks for the pointer. -andy _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
