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[bug] dd: misleading "invalid argument" for a filename


From: Maciej Pilichowski
Subject: [bug] dd: misleading "invalid argument" for a filename
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 13:22:20 +0100

Hello,

  I am trying to copy data using dd as in this example:

dd if=myfile of=/dev/null bs=16M iflag=direct

  The file exists, the filename is correct, the access is granted, in 
short -- everything is OK. 

  Yet, dd shows an error:
dd: opening `myfile': Invalid argument

  It is misleading, the quoted argument is fine. When I remove iflag, 
it works. IOW -- argument is valid, only the given flags cannot be 
applied.


PLEASE keep me in CC while replying because I am not subscriber to 
this ML. Thank you.

Cheers,




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