I'm not sure to understand your first sentence. Resolving the last
component is already the existing behavior, but maybe not the intended one.
Anyway, I agree that the path should be resolved without its last component.
I wrote a new patch for this. I hope that this one will not break anything.
> On April 1, 2013 at 6:58 AM Bob Proulx wrote:
> Haneef Mubarak wrote:
> > dd doesn't have a quiet option, ie: dd --quiet
> >
> > Having a quiet option would allow for an easier use of piping with dd
>
> The dd manual documents this as "status=none":
Additional note: this has been added in coreu
