Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Per Jessen
wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote:
Well, they caused this entire thread because someone came to the conclusion that dd was a tree walker since it had arguments that seemingly only make sense in a tree walker.
Right, but if that's perhaps the only "problem" caused in all the many years of dd supporting those flags, I would personally not call it worth fixing. In fact, because 'dd' has had those flags for years, "fixing" it sounds like a decidedly bad idea. We may not know what the use cases are, but if we were to fix the flags, I suspect we would find out in about a nanosecond :-)
Agreed that at least in linux, the commands have been around at least since 2010. Here's one example:
But counter examples where they don't exist are easy to find. Here's a few:
I looked at openSUSE 11.0, I don't see "nofollow" there either.
So the only place I have yet found that even allows the "directory" flag is linux, but the linux kernel blocks it from working because it doesn't provide read or write access to raw directories. If I ever saw a feature that was broken by design this seems to be it.
I admit I expected the flags be a lot older than only four years. Well, I'm a sceptic by nature, what does the source say? There must have been some reason for adding them, maybe some filesystem-yet-to-be-written? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (20.2°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org