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

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: iflag/oflag for dd(1)
From: Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:49:14 -0400 (EDT)

>> Some of the flags don't make sense:
>> (O_CREAT,O_RDONLY,O_RDWR,O_TRUNC,O_WRONLY,O_APPEND)

> - O_RDWR: you may want to specify it for the input file

Why?  Since dd doesn't try to write to the input fd, why could you ever
want to specify O_RDWR instead of O_RDONLY?

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