Bug#373736: coreutils: dd oflag=append does not append

2006-06-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 01:21:23PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: AFAICT, from the man page ... oflag=FLAGS write as per the comma separated symbol list ... Each FLAG symbol may be: append append mode (makes sense only for output) .. You probably want

Bug#373736: coreutils: dd oflag=append does not append

2006-06-26 Thread A Mennucc
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:18:46PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: You probably want conv=notrunc uh! thanks for the tip but still I see some kind of bug in this, lets say a documentation bug 1) conv= is supposed to be convert the file as per the comma separated symbol list IMHO, do

Bug#373736: coreutils: dd oflag=append does not append

2006-06-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:21:32PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: 1) conv= is supposed to be convert the file as per the comma separated symbol list IMHO, do not truncate the output file is not a conversion in any possible imaginable way; I would understand more if it was oflag=notrunc A

Bug#373736: coreutils: dd oflag=append does not append

2006-06-15 Thread A Mennucc
Package: coreutils Version: 5.96-3 Severity: normal hi AFAICT, from the man page ... oflag=FLAGS write as per the comma separated symbol list ... Each FLAG symbol may be: append append mode (makes sense only for output) .. but in this example