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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 10 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 3b8cbe310..5ed8f749e 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -6666,18 +6666,12 @@ Use non-blocking I/O. @cindex symbolic links, following Do not follow symbolic links. -@item noctty -@opindex noctty -@cindex controlling terminal -Do not assign the file to be a controlling terminal for @command{dd}. -This has no effect when the file is not a terminal. - @end table These flags are not supported on all systems, and @samp{dd} rejects attempts to use them when they are not supported. When reading from -standard input or writing to standard output, the @samp{nofollow} and -@samp{noctty} flags should not be specified, and the other flags +standard input or writing to standard output, the @samp{nofollow} flag +should not be specified, and the other flags (e.g., @samp{nonblock}) can affect how other processes behave with the affected file descriptors, even after @command{dd} exits. |