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Date:      Sat, 28 Aug 1999 12:41:57 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        green@FreeBSD.org, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/dd dd.c
Message-ID:  <199908280241.MAA24807@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> >   Use FIODTYPE to unbogosify much of the file type checking in dd.
>>   
>> Careful!  You may now have introduced a potential circular dependency
>> for installing the world...
>> 
>
>Oh crud. I think you're right. I'll take out the error for a few weeks.

dd is not an include-tool, so there should be no problems.  It should
fail safe to assuming that seek doesn't work if the ioctl fails at
runtime.  Falling back to the old code is hopefully unnecessary.

Bruce


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