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Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 01:06:39 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: DD converts LF -> CR / LF
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Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

> my mounts are all text mode, i.e. the "Default Text File
> Type" is "DOS". Nevertheless, shouldn't

Yeah, that does seem a bit broken.  You can solve that with something
like the following:

--- dd.c.orig   2005-05-06 01:03:01.125000000 -0700
+++ dd.c        2005-05-06 01:00:07.265625000 -0700
@@ -136,8 +136,12 @@
 static int conversions_mask = 0;
 
 /* Open flags for the input and output files.  */
-static int input_flags = 0;
-static int output_flags = 0;
+#ifndef O_BINARY
+#define O_BINARY 0
+#endif
+
+static int input_flags = O_BINARY;
+static int output_flags = O_BINARY;
 
 /* Status flags for what is printed to stderr.  */
 static int status_flags = 0;

-----

It would be up to the coreutils maintainer to decide what to do about
this.  It could be handled in a number of ways.

Brian

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