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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Integrate dd ibs/obs patch
From: Rob Landley <rob () landley ! net>
Date: 2006-05-31 23:24:49
Message-ID: 200605311924.49972.rob () landley ! net
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On Tuesday 30 May 2006 5:42 pm, Paul Fox wrote:
> rob landley wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 4:50 am, Rob Sullivan wrote:
> > > The attached patch adds ibs= and obs= support to dd, based on the
> > > patch in the patches/ subdirectory. It makes the feature optional, as
> > > requested a while ago.
> >
> > Hmmm... If somebody specifies both obs= and bs= they can cause the size
> > to be something that the !twobufs_flag codepath doesn't expect. I'll
> > fix it. (And the #ifdefs are going away; The !twobufs_flag codepath
> > should be the same whether the twobufs part is enabled or not.)
> >
> > conv= should be under this config flag as well.
>
> i don't understand the last part of this change.
>
> why are the "notrunc" and "noerror" conv options conditional on
> the FEATURE_DD_IBS_OBS?
Basically using it as a DD_BIG switch?
> i can separate them, if it's the right thing -- i have another
> conv= option i'd like to add, and it's definitely independent of
> ibs/obs, so i need to clean this up for my own use in any case.
I'm not _against_ adding configuration granularity, but it seems like it's
about time to add a CONFIG_NITPICK switch.
I just did so.
Be afraid. Be very afraid...
Rob
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