RE: two modifications to dd(1)

[Iain Hibbert <plunky%rya-online.net@localhost>]

<tsugutomo.enami%jp.sony.com@localhost> wrote:
>1) Copy argument before modifying it so that ps(1) shows entire
>   options.

wrt this, is it worth not exiting for strdup() failure? I mean, the 
consequences are not fatal because we can fall back to using the argv string 
directly..

(i don't know if the program would successfully continue in such a low memory 
instance, but dd is a rescue tool..)

iain