From a660c7e1658827cecd7534b25166bda297d7d558 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:25:27 +0000 Subject: New dd conv= symbols nocreat, excl, fdatasync, fsync, and new dd options iflag= and oflag=. --- NEWS | 26 ++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c0cfaffb6..2550ab002 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -9,14 +9,24 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features - stty now provides support (iutf8) for setting UTF-8 input mode. - - 'df', 'du', and 'ls' now take the default block size from the - BLOCKSIZE environment variable if the BLOCK_SIZE, DF_BLOCK_SIZE, - DU_BLOCK_SIZE, and LS_BLOCK_SIZE environment variables are not set. - Unlike the other variables, though, BLOCKSIZE does not affect - values like 'ls -l' sizes that are normally displayed as bytes. - This new behavior is for compatibility with BSD. + dd has new conversions for the conv= option: + + nocreat do not create the output file + excl fail if the output file already exists + fdatasync physically write output file data before finishing + fsync likewise, but also write metadata + + dd has new iflag= and oflag= options with the following flags: + + append append mode (makes sense for output file only) + direct use direct I/O for data + dsync use synchronized I/O for data + sync likewise, but also for metadata + nonblock use non-blocking I/O + nofollow do not follow symlinks + noctty do not assign controlling terminal from file + + stty now provides support (iutf8) for setting UTF-8 input mode. With stat, a specified format is no longer automatically newline terminated. If you want a newline at the end of your output, append `\n' to the format -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf