Re: CVS commit: src/bin/dd

2010-11-24 Thread Jim Wise
David Holland dholland-sourcechan...@netbsd.org writes: Adding weird special case remote access hacks to dd (of all random tools) is also poor design. Why not for the next round add support for dd ifurl=http://www.netbsd.org/index.html of=mycopy or dd ifurl=http://www.netbsd.org/

Re: CVS commit: src/bin/dd

2010-11-23 Thread Antti Kantee
On Tue Nov 23 2010 at 12:28:48 +, Matthias Scheler wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:04:28PM +, Antti Kantee wrote: Module Name:src Committed By: pooka Date: Mon Nov 22 21:04:28 UTC 2010 Modified Files: src/bin/dd: Makefile args.c dd.c dd.h

Re: CVS commit: src/bin/dd

2010-11-23 Thread Matthias Scheler
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:42:04PM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote: (on a slight tangent, wasn't getting rid of /usr vs. / on the roadmap?) I don't know that. I personally don't create /usr partitions on my NetBSD systems anymore. But they usually have hard disks with multiple gigabytes of storage

Re: CVS commit: src/bin/dd

2010-11-23 Thread Bernd Ernesti
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:42:04PM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote: On Tue Nov 23 2010 at 12:28:48 +, Matthias Scheler wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:04:28PM +, Antti Kantee wrote: Module Name: src Committed By: pooka Date: Mon Nov 22 21:04:28 UTC 2010

Re: CVS commit: src/bin/dd

2010-11-23 Thread David Laight
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:19:36AM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote: Surely it would be more appropriate to make thye rump kernel directly forward some paths to the real kernel? Can you explain how that could work? First thoughts are something like the way /../ is used to 'escape' from the

Re: CVS commit: src/bin/dd

2010-11-23 Thread Antti Kantee
On Tue Nov 23 2010 at 18:41:21 +, David Laight wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:19:36AM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote: Surely it would be more appropriate to make thye rump kernel directly forward some paths to the real kernel? Can you explain how that could work? First

Re: CVS commit: src/bin/dd

2010-11-23 Thread David Holland
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:42:04PM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote: (on a slight tangent, wasn't getting rid of /usr vs. / on the roadmap?) No. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org

Re: CVS commit: src/bin/dd

2010-11-23 Thread David Holland
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:50:54PM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote: Surely it would be more appropriate to make thye rump kernel directly forward some paths to the real kernel? Can you explain how that could work? First thoughts are something like the way /../ is used to

Re: CVS commit: src/bin/dd

2010-11-22 Thread Antti Kantee
On Mon Nov 22 2010 at 22:09:24 +, David Laight wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:04:28PM +, Antti Kantee wrote: Module Name:src Committed By: pooka Date: Mon Nov 22 21:04:28 UTC 2010 Modified Files: src/bin/dd: Makefile args.c dd.c dd.h

Re: CVS commit: src/bin/dd

2010-11-22 Thread David Holland
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:09:24PM +, David Laight wrote: Add two new operands: rif and rof. They operate exactly like if and of with the exception that the communicate with a rump kernel instead of the host kernel. H this seems like polluting a standard utility to