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2003-05-14(usage): Don't use `,' as the thousands separatorJim Meyering
in e.g. 1,000,000 and 1,048,576. Instead, do this: `SIZE may be ..., MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024 and so on...'
2002-11-10(interrupt_handler): Use raise, rather than kill+getpid.Jim Meyering
2002-11-05(print_stats, main):Jim Meyering
Use primitives from inttostr.h, not human.h, to print large numbers simply.
2002-10-06(scanargs): Ensure that specified block sizes (specifiedJim Meyering
via ibs=N, obs=N, and bs=N) are no larger than SSIZE_MAX. (skip, dd_copy): Adapt to new safe_read ABI.
2002-09-22Remove all inclusions of inttypes.h,Jim Meyering
since it's already included from sys2.h via system.h.
2002-09-14(main, skip): Add casts to avoid warnings aboutJim Meyering
`comparison between signed and unsigned'.
2002-08-31Change `exit (0)' to `exit (EXIT_SUCCESS)',Jim Meyering
`exit (1)' to `exit (EXIT_FAILURE)', and `usage (1)' to `usage (EXIT_FAILURE)'.
2002-08-30Change `error (1, ...' to `error (EXIT_FAILURE, ...'.Jim Meyering
2002-07-02(usage): Use the PACKAGE_BUGREPORT e-mail address, rather than hard-coding it.Jim Meyering
2002-04-25Avoid warnings from gcc.Jim Meyering
Declare input_file and output_file to be `const'. (skip): Declare `file' parameter to be `const', too.
2001-12-21(usage, parse_integer): Prefer K to k for 1024.Jim Meyering
2001-12-11(buggy_lseek_support): Remove function.Jim Meyering
(skip_via_lseek) [__linux__]: New function. (skip): Use skip_via_lseek, not buggy_lseek_support.
2001-12-02Use new macros, HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION and VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTIONJim Meyering
instead of hard-coding --help and --version descriptions.
2001-12-02Don't emulate dd's skip=N for *all* character devices; lseek worksJim Meyering
just fine on non-tape character devices like /dev/mem and /dev/kmem. (buggy_lseek_support) [__linux__]: Emulate `skip=N' behavior using reads, not lseek for Linux tape devices (major == 9). Kernel lseek support for tapes is broken, up to and including linux-2.4.16. Reported by Herbert Xu.
2001-11-23Split usage strings so that --help and --versionJim Meyering
descriptions are alone in their own string.
2001-11-23(usage): Split --help output into smaller pieces.Jim Meyering
Use fputs, not printf.
2001-10-24Remove as many instances of 'unsigned' asJim Meyering
possible, as some of them were not conforming to ANSI C, and they made the code hard to read. Avoiding 'unsigned' cuts down on the number of casts. (newline_character, space_character, save_char): Now char, not unsigned char. (obuf): Now char *, not unsigned char *. (ascii_to_ebcdic, ascii_to_ibm, ebcdic_to_ascii): Now char[], not unsigned char[]. (translate_charset, translate_buffer, swab_buffer, skip, copy_simple, copy_with_block, copy_with_unblock): Arg now points to char, not unsigned char. All callers changed. (translate_charset, parse_conversion, apply_translations): Use int index, not unsigned int. (bit_count): Arg is now int, not unsigned int. Callers not changed, as they already assumed this. (translate_buffer): Cast char to unsigned char before using it as a subscript. (swab_buffer): Returns char *, not unsigned char *. (dd_copy): Use char, not unsigned char, for buffers. Use size_t for possibly-large index, not unsigned int.
2001-08-31Include full-write.h.Jim Meyering
(full_write): Remove decl; not needed. (open_fd): Don't assume read and write size fits in int.
2001-08-14(AUTHORS): Mark string for translation, since it contains the English word ↵Jim Meyering
`and'.
2001-04-23(dd_copy): When using sync with either block or unblock,Jim Meyering
pad with spaces.
2001-04-22fix typo in --help outputJim Meyering
2001-04-22(usage): Mention that sync makes dd pad with spaces (rather than NULs)Jim Meyering
when used with block or unblock.
2001-03-06(S_TYPEISSHM): Rename parameter to reflect its type.Jim Meyering
(main): Pass a `struct stat *', not stat.st_mode to S_TYPEISSHM.
2001-03-04(output_char): Reformat so each statement is on a separate line.Jim Meyering
2001-01-17(main): Likewise.Jim Meyering
2000-12-02(skip, dd_copy): Use ssize_t to store result ofJim Meyering
safe_read, to avoid overflow e.g. on 64-bit Solaris sparc. (dd_copy): Remove unnecessary cast.
2000-12-02Undo most of the changes since 2000-11-24, since we'veJim Meyering
documented a standard way to do it. (skip_bytes, seek_bytes): Remove. (usage): Remove B suffix. (scanargs, skip, dd_copy, main): Remove support for B suffix.
2000-11-26(skip): Perform the `records < blocksize' testJim Meyering
at the top of the loop, not at the bottom.
2000-11-26(skip): New arg COUNT_BYTES. Read with BLOCKSIZEJim Meyering
bytes, but consider RECORDS to be a byte count if COUNT_BYTES is nonzero.
2000-11-26(skip_bytes, seek_bytes): Now booleans, not counts.Jim Meyering
(seek_records): Renamed from seek_record, for consistency with skip_records and max_records. All uses changed. (usage, scanargs): Remove bseek=n and bskip=n; instead, use seek=nB and skip=nB. (enum Unit, Unit): Remove. (skip, dd_copy, main): Undo most recent change. (dd_copy, main): Pass blocksize of 1 as appropriate when skip_bytes or seek_bytes is nonzero. (main): Rework ftruncate failure diagnostic to always use byte count.
2000-11-25more post-merge clean-up.Jim Meyering
Fix a merge bug exposed by new test.
2000-11-25remove bskipJim Meyering
adapt skip to skip either by bytes or by blocks
2000-11-25(S_TYPEISSHM): New macro.Jim Meyering
(main): Report failed fstat. Complain only when ftruncate fails on a regular file, a directory, or a shared memory object.
2000-11-24bskip/bseek patch from Chris Sylvain <csylvain@umm.edu> merged inJim Meyering
2000-11-24Declare a pointer parameters to be `const' as appropriate.Jim Meyering
2000-11-24(main): Use ftruncate only on regular files.Jim Meyering
Based on a patch from Michael Stone. Reported by andras@kolumbus.fi at http://bugs.debian.org/77174.
2000-10-22fix typoJim Meyering
2000-08-24Put back the kluge. It's necessary after all.Jim Meyering
(buggy_lseek_support): New function. (skip): Use it. Frank Adler reported that although _llseek returns 0, lseek erroneously returns an offset suggesting the operation succeeded even though it fails.
2000-08-24(skip): Assume lseek failed if it returned zero, since a zero return isJim Meyering
impossible and some buggy drivers return zero. Use SEEK_CUR rather than SEEK_SET; this fixes a bug when the file descriptor is not currently rewound.
2000-08-23back out last changeJim Meyering
2000-08-22Don't even try to use lseek on character devices.Jim Meyering
(buggy_lseek_support): New function. (skip): Use it. Reported by Martin Gallant via Michael Stone.
2000-07-23(main): Give a better diagnostic for e.g.,Jim Meyering
`dd if=/dev/fd0 seek=100000000000'. Convert "`%s'" in format strings to "%s", and wrap each corresponding argument in a `quote (...)' call. Add many, more precise diagnostics.
2000-05-25(close_stdout_wrapper): Don't dereference NULL pointer.Jim Meyering
From Bob Proulx.
2000-05-17tweak commentJim Meyering
2000-05-13Include closeout.h.Jim Meyering
(usage): Don't call close_stdout here. (close_stdout_wrapper): New, kludgey, function and file-scoped global. (main): Register it with atexit.
2000-01-30(main): Exit with nonzero status if ftruncate fails.Jim Meyering
2000-01-18(interrupt_handler):Jim Meyering
Don't use SA_INTERRUPT to decide whether to call sigaction, as POSIX.1 doesn't require SA_INTERRUPT and some systems (e.g. Solaris 7) don't define it. Use SA_NOCLDSTOP instead; it's been part of POSIX.1 since day 1 (in 1988). (install_handler): Use SA_NOCLDSTOP, not _POSIX_VERSION, to decide whether to call sigaction; this fixes an old typo.
1999-09-19(siginfo_handler): Mark parameter with ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED.Jim Meyering
Change lots of count and index variables to be of unsigned type. (dd_copy): Add new unsigned variable, n_bytes_read, in place of many uses of `nread'.
1999-08-22(parse_integer): Add `const' to char* parameter andJim Meyering
add a separate `suffix' variable.
1999-07-27(dd_copy): Free the right obuf.Jim Meyering