Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 11:47:35 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: DD converts LF -> CR / LF Message-ID: <20050507154735.GG11243@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <427B1A65.5060106@tu-bs.de> <427B258F.90516ACA@dessent.net> <427B70CB.7040101@byu.net> <87oebo1bfa.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <427CDB49.8030804@byu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <427CDB49.8030804@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i 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 >> >> * 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/