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Re: [PATCH] Re: iflag/oflag for dd(1)

To: Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: iflag/oflag for dd(1)
From: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:32:58 +0000

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 03:04:12PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> Some of the flags don't make sense:
> (O_CREAT,O_RDONLY,O_RDWR,O_TRUNC,O_WRONLY,O_APPEND)

Don't they? 
- O_CREAT: you may want dd to work only if the file xists
- O_RDWR: you may want to specify it for the input file
- O_TRUNC, O_APPEND: for testing purpose?

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu%netbsd.org@localhost

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