Re: O_DIRECT support in dd

2005-11-18 Thread Phillip Susi
there was over a year between the release of 5.2.1 and 5.92, with nothing in between. Paul Eggert wrote: Phillip Susi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I searched the archives and found a thread from over a year ago talking about adding support to dd for O_DIRECT, but it is not documented in the man pages

Re: O_DIRECT support in dd

2005-11-18 Thread Paul Eggert
Phillip Susi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The man pages at: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_chapter/coreutils_11.html#SEC65 Those are obsolete. Unfortunately they are not generated automatically, as they should be. I just did my quick best to bring them up to date, and the

O_DIRECT support in dd

2005-11-17 Thread Phillip Susi
I searched the archives and found a thread from over a year ago talking about adding support to dd for O_DIRECT, but it is not documented in the man pages. Did the man pages not get updated, or did this patch not make it in? If O_DIRECT is supported, but not documented, then I wonder: does

Re: O_DIRECT support in dd

2005-11-17 Thread Paul Eggert
Phillip Susi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I searched the archives and found a thread from over a year ago talking about adding support to dd for O_DIRECT, but it is not documented in the man pages. It's in coreutils 5.93 dd. Try, e.g., dd iflag=direct. It's not documented with the phrase