From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 27 9:49:56 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 469CA14D99; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:49:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA29644; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:49:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: green owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:49:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" To: Garrett Wollman Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/dd dd.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > < said: > > > > > Use FIODTYPE to unbogosify much of the file type checking in dd. > > > > Careful! You may now have introduced a potential circular dependency > > for installing the world... > > Thanks for making me nervous! I forgot that this only gets used (the ioctl) on a chr or blk device :) I got kinda worried there for a minute. > > > -GAWollman > > > > -- > > Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same > > wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom > > Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame > > MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / "Any sufficiently advanced bug is \ green@FreeBSD.org | indistinguishable from a feature." | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! \ -- Rich Kulawiec / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message