This should be a bit useful for users who look at the manpage and
then try to copy data CD-ROM disks using dd. A lot of us know
that bs=2048 is required, but it still manages to cause a bit of
grief to those who haven't heard about it.
PR: bin/130857
Submitted by: Tri Brotoharsono < mail at tribrotoharsono.net >
MFC after: 3 days
to specify an alternative padding character when using a conversion
mode, or when using noerror with sync and an input error occurs. This
facilities reading old and error-prone media by allowing the user to
more effectively mark error blocks in the output stream.
Revert to using the .Tn POSIX and .Tn ANSI instead of \*[Px] and \*[Ai]
strings; using these strings is unsafe in troff mode, as they include a
change in a font size.
Approved by: re
o Old-style K&R declarations have been converted to new C89 style
o register has been removed
o prototype for main() has been removed (gcc3 makes it an error)
o int main(int argc, char *argv[]) is the preferred main definition.
o Attempt to not break style(9) conformance for declarations more than
they already are.
Approved by: arch@, new style(9)
signal. Fix it by adding an explicit call to summary() in terminate()
(it was previously called implicitly by exit() because summary() was
registered with atexit()). summary() is supposed to be signal-safe--
it handles SIGINFO almost exclusively--so this should be safe.
Submitted by: bde
operands. Can _YOU_ tell skip= and seek= apart with 100% accuracy
every time?
This also seems to make us option-for-option compatible with the
Solaris dd(1).
Approved by: jkh
Suggested by: peter
bfumerola for that pointer!) in GCC complaining about losing a const.
While I'm here, might as well mark in the Makefile that I'm the
${MAINTAINER}. It seems like that's what everyone's doing these days.
what I was trying to do work much better (ie at all. I could have sworn
it was working...) Fix a SEEK_SET to be SEEK_CUR, and make Bruce's
lseek() test work correctly.
useful as a seeking-tool as well as its many other uses. Previously,
dd(1) would succeed with count=0, but wouldn't get to the point that
blocks were to be read/written. This is a more useful behavior, and
this specific case doesn't seem to be handled by POSIX.
BDEification process of dd(1). Most of the changes are from BDE's archive.
Support for negative offsets is gone again, but the case where you
lseek() onto byte -1 of something from a negative offset using seek/skip
is fixed; if you end up on -1, you won't get a false positive lseek failure.
The biggest changes are to data types (more size_t, for instance) and
argument parsing. skip/seek on /dev/{,k}mem now occurs (instead of "read
until you reach the offset") due to mem devices now being D_DISK. Some
const things are now correctly declared as such, and the "case table"
building is better. The only thing that seems to be left to make dd(1)
everything TOG wants it to be is l10n.
request of Bruce. More changes may follow later. 'g' multiplier has
been added (i.e. dd seek=5g if=bigfile.) Some minor corrections were made
as well.
Noticed by: bde
statement if blocks[*] when the else could be ambiguous, not defaulting
to int type and removal of some unused variables.
[*] This is explicitly allowed by style(9) when the single statement
spans more than one line.
Reviewed by: obrien, chuckr
specifies exiting with a zero status if the file was copied
successfully, and with a nonzero status if an error occurred. We
are too sloppy to tell if the file was copied successfully when we
get killed by a SIGINT, but it is unlikely to have been. Added a
comment about related sloppiness (calling exit() from a signal
handler).
is also set.
Change osync to not to tack on an empty block if the input buffer is null,
or an even multiple of the blocksize.
Also change osync to pad the output with nulls/spaces depending whether
this is a block-oriented conversion or not (same as sync).
PR: 3818
OpenBSD version for more complete fixes. E.g., to seek to offsets >
INT_MAX using a block size of 1, block numbers need to be off_t's
instead of u_long's.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
and he's right ... I forgot about this floating point stuff you can
use in user-land :-)
Increase precision of duration to microseconds.
No heuristics to avoid overflow in calculation needed - just depend
on DBL_MAX being a bit larger than LONG_MAX.
Use double instead of `struct timeval' in dd.h so that everything
doesn't have to include <sys/time.h>.
Fixed style bugs in recent and old FreeBSD changes.
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: bde
