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

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Mar 17,  3:26pm, manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: iflag/oflag for dd(1)

| On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 03:04:12PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > Some of the flags don't make sense:
| > (O_CREAT,O_RDONLY,O_RDWR,O_TRUNC,O_WRONLY,O_APPEND)
| > since they interfere with the operation of the dd command (linux does not
| > support them either).
| 
| Shall I just remove them from the list or issue an error when they are 
| specified?

Well, I think it is simpler to just remove them from the list and leave
a comment behind saying that the following are not supported because they
interfere...

christos