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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-03-06 07:21:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-03-06 07:21:40 +0000 |
| commit | 7c7486d168969027cfe43c98eb46ec2ce34deebb (patch) | |
| tree | 3a4ec0fff9e8f650039347e08ae9d5e8856dec92 /doc | |
| parent | c21aeb1bd8e7dc22335fecb71aff8ff615248456 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-7c7486d168969027cfe43c98eb46ec2ce34deebb.tar.xz | |
(dd invocation): New flags directory, nolinks.
Alphabetize nofollow.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 25 |
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 77346501c..c7ec7300a 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New flags directory, nolinks. + Alphabetize nofollow. + 2006-02-17 Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> * coreutils.texi: Add base64 section. diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 7aca5a081..8a9317d5f 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7003,7 +7003,8 @@ argument(s). (No spaces around any comma(s).) Access the output file using the flags specified by the @var{flag} argument(s). (No spaces around any comma(s).) -Flags: +Here are the flags. Not every flag is supported on every operating +system. @table @samp @@ -7019,6 +7020,13 @@ contents of the file. This flag makes sense only for output. @cindex direct I/O Use direct I/O for data, avoiding the buffer cache. +@item directory +@opindex directory +@cindex directory I/O + +Fail unless the file is a directory. Most operating systems do not +allow I/O to a directory, so this flag has limited utility. + @item dsync @opindex dsync @cindex synchronized data reads @@ -7043,11 +7051,6 @@ Use non-blocking I/O. @cindex access time Do not update the file's access time. -@item nofollow -@opindex nofollow -@cindex symbolic links, following -Do not follow symbolic links. - @item noctty @opindex noctty @cindex controlling terminal @@ -7056,6 +7059,16 @@ This has no effect when the file is not a terminal. On many hosts (e.g., @acronym{GNU}/Linux hosts), this option has no effect at all. +@item nofollow +@opindex nofollow +@cindex symbolic links, following +Do not follow symbolic links. + +@item nolinks +@opindex nolinks +@cindex hard links +Fail if the file has multiple hard links. + @item binary @opindex binary @cindex binary I/O |