On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 09:14:17AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Paul Eggert on 5/6/2005 12:01 PM: >> That looks pretty complicated. How about if we just rely on "open" >> and "fcntl" to do the work? If they don't work, they should. >> >> I installed this into coreutils: >> >> 2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> * NEWS: dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags "binary" and "text". >> * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document it. >> * src/dd.c (flags, usage): Support it. > >That's okay for a start, but it now defaults to the underlying mount mode >when the user does not specify binary or text. In my opinion, dd should >default to binary when neither text nor binary is specified (of course, >that makes iflag=binary pretty much a no-op).
So, this seems to be the consensus. It really is the only sane way for dd to operate. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
