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Date:      Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:03:10 -0400
From:      "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" <johnandsara2@cox.net>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [Bug 133286] dd can fill system memory
Message-ID:  <53E0D60E.4030206@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <arf11o02G2X408g01rf2io>
References:  <bug-133286-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> <arf11o02G2X408g01rf2io>

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bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org wrote:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133286
> 
> yaneurabeya@gmail.com changed:
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>                  CC|                            |yaneurabeya@gmail.com
> 
> --- Comment #5 from yaneurabeya@gmail.com ---
> (Just a "drive-by" comment)
> It might be a good idea to do add iflags/oflags for Linux compatibility; they
> have an iflags=direct/oflags=direct option, as well as other interesting
> options for tweaking O_APPEND, O_NONBLOCK, and other O_* flags:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/dd-invocation.html
> 

so will break software and scripts (or printed books) using dd(1) ?

if such a binary is on a rescue disk that may float around, what 
will the hangups be of not being able to use dd(1) due to versional 
tweeks ?



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