Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I was thinking it would be useful to >>> add an option to dd to tell it to >>> instruct the OS not to cache the data. >> >> I like the idea, even if it works only with very recent Linux >> kernels. > > It's not that new. It's in since 2.5.60 according > to the man page, and I verified the code is in 2.6.0 > Also it uses a posix interface, so I presume this is > available elsewhere.
Note that I said "works", not exists :-) Does it work consistently even for initial versions? ... > I considered this, but thought you wouldn't need this granularity. > But thinking more about it I think you're right. > > If we want to control input and output separately > perhaps we should use flags. So we have: > iflag=nocache and oflag=nocache Of course! Using that mechanism is the way to go. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
