On 1/5/21 3:06 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 1/4/21 3:07 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> What 'dd' implementation was this specifically? > > Solaris dd has iseek and oseek. However, they are not aliases for skip > and seek. If coreutils dd were to add these features I expect we should > do them the Solaris way, instead of making them aliases for skip and > seek. This would take more work than the proposed patches. > > https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36871/dd-1m.html
That would make the situation even more confusing for the user ... and more complex because such implementation would interfere with GNU dd's seek/skip and iflag=skip_bytes and oflag=skip_bytes functionality. Doesn't sound like a good idea. Have a nice day, Berny
