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

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost (Mouse) writes:

>>> 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?


As an unexpected side effect to fail when the input is not writable.

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