Reda Sallahi <fullma...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > > I have a first patch that adds a minimal subcommand dd for qemu-img that > is similar to dd(1) so this is a work-in-progress. > > So far it implements the bs and count options with of course the if and of > options (e.g. ./qemu-img dd if=foo.raw of=foo.qcow2 bs=128K count=10 -O > qcow2). > > There is no output with statistics for now so this acts like dd status=none.
dd's syntax looks more like JCL than Unix. Some think that was a prank. It's been faithfully preserved through decades, and now we're even cloning it. Funny :) PS: Please make sure your patches are properly threaded, i.e. are replies to the cover letter. http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch#Use_git_format-patch