On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:34:19AM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On 2009/05/10 22:48, Jacob L. Leifman wrote:
> ...
> >> More likely the M example was written by someone that is familiar with
> >> one of the other variants of dd (such as possibly GNU). A quick check
> >> of some other systems, including Linux flavors, shows me that while
> >> they also require the b, c, and w suffixes in lower case, the M suffix
> >> is expected to be upper case. So perhaps that one (and only that one)
> >> should be allowed (or required?) in upper case.
> >
> > GNU dd also requires upper case letters for G, T, P, E, Z and Y (are
> > they making this up as they go along? oh wait, yes they are...)
>
> That, or they followed the ISO spec for unit prefixes, which uses caps
> for prefixes larger than kilo. Of course, it's lot like someone
> intends bs=8m to be a request for a blocksize of 8 millibytes....
That's what I figured as well. I agree with allowing M, but b, k and w
should be left as is.
-Otto
