From d24265f9659d21c8e89f1f21cf3b774c7c120afe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 21:16:28 +0000 Subject: Warn about oflag=append without conv=notrunc. --- doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ doc/coreutils.texi | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 3f0f26a32..6cdf3743f 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-08-09 Paul Eggert + + * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Warn about oflag=append without + conv=notrunc. See Debian bug 373736. + 2006-08-08 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi (shuf invocation, Random sources): New sections. diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 5a497614f..bf4d32f37 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7302,6 +7302,9 @@ system. Write in append mode, so that even if some other process is writing to this file, every @command{dd} write will append to the current contents of the file. This flag makes sense only for output. +If you combine this flag with the @samp{of=@var{file}} operand, +you should also specify @samp{conv=notrunc} unless you want the +output file to be truncated before being appended to. @item direct @opindex direct -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2