On 22/02/2022 17:12, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 1/4/21 20:08, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 1/4/21 7:44 PM, Bela Lubkin wrote:
TLDR: *huge* existing presence of 'iseek' and 'oseek'; most OSes document
them as pure synonyms for 'skip' and 'seek'.
Thanks for doing all that research. It's compelling, and I think your
patch (or something like it) should go in. I'll wait for a bit to hear
other opinions.
After thinking about the patch a bit more, let's omit the part about
adding new conversions iseek_bytes etc., as I think there's a better way
to address that issue. I proposed something in <https://bugs.gnu.org/54112>.
So instead of your patch, I installed the attached patches. The first
one adds the iseek and oseek operands that you suggested; the second one
clarifies dd documentation, as I found several things were confusing
when rereading it carefully. Something like these patches should appear
in the next coreutils release.
+1
The aliases are useful.
I always remembered it like skIp for Input,
but that is awkward.
As for the overlap in solaris with disabling reading,
I think that would be better as a flag, like "seek_only",
if deemed useful.
thanks,
Pádraig
