History log of /freebsd-current/bin/dd/dd.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 90aea514 23-Nov-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

bin: Remove ancient SCCS tags.

Remove ancient SCCS tags from the tree, automated scripting, with two
minor fixup to keep things compiling. All the common forms in the tree
were removed with a perl script.

Sponsored by: Netflix


# 42b38843 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove $FreeBSD$: one-line .h pattern

Remove /^\s*\*+\s*\$FreeBSD\$.*$\n/


# f4b4526f 04-Jun-2020 Richard Scheffenegger <rscheff@FreeBSD.org>

Add O_DIRECT flag to DD for cache bypass

FreeBSD DD utility has not had support for the O_DIRECT flag, which
is useful to bypass local caching, e.g. for unconditionally issuing
NFS IO requests during testing.

Reviewed by: rgrimes (mentor)
Approved by: rgrimes (mentor, blanket)
MFC after: 3 weeks
Sponsored by: NetApp, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25066


# b52c534b 30-Sep-2019 Matt Macy <mmacy@FreeBSD.org>

Add iflag=fullblock to dd

Normally, count=n means read(2) will be called n times on the input to dd. If
the read() returns short, as may happen when reading from a pipe, fewer bytes
will be copied from the input. With conv=sync the buffer is padded with zeros
to fill the rest of the block.

iflag=fullblock causes dd to continue reading until the block is full, so that
count=n means n full blocks are copied. This flag is compatible with illumos
and GNU dd and is used in the ZFS test suite.

Submitted by: Ryan Moeller
Reviewed by: manpages, mmacy@
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21441


# 919156e3 30-Sep-2019 Matt Macy <mmacy@FreeBSD.org>

Add oflag=fsync and oflag=sync capability to dd

Sets the O_FSYNC flag on the output file. oflag=fsync and oflag=sync are
synonyms just as O_FSYNC and O_SYNC are synonyms. This functionality is
intended to improve portability of dd commands in the ZFS test suite.

Submitted by: Ryan Moeller
Reviewed by: manpages, mmacy@
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: iXsytems, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21422


# 3b96efbd 30-Sep-2019 Matt Macy <mmacy@FreeBSD.org>

Add conv=fdatasync flag to dd

The fdatasync flag performs an fdatasync(2) on the output file before closing it.
This will be useful for the ZFS test suite.

Submitted by: Ryan Moeller
Reviewed by: manpages, mmacy@
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: iXSystems, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21373


# ce1b19d8 03-Sep-2019 Matt Macy <mmacy@FreeBSD.org>

Add conv=fsync flag to dd

The fsync flag performs an fsync(2) on the output file before closing it.
This will be useful for the ZFS test suite.

Submitted by: ryan@ixsystems.com
Reviewed by: jilles@, imp@
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.


# dead7b5e 29-Nov-2018 Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>

Replace hand-crafted naive byte-by-byte zero block detection routine
with macro based around memcmp(). The latter is expected to be some
8 times faster on a modern 64-bit architectures.

In practice, throughput of doing conv=sparse from /dev/zero to /dev/null
went up some 5-fold here from 1.9GB/sec to 9.7GB/sec with this change
(bs=128k).

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 4767c42c 08-Aug-2018 Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>

dd: add status=progress support

This reports the current status on a single line every second, mirroring
similar functionality in GNU dd, and carefully interacts with SIGINFO.

PR: 229615
Submitted by: Thomas Hurst <tom@hur.st> (modified for style(9) nits by me)
MFC after: 1 week


# 8a16b7a1 20-Nov-2017 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.


# 77a798b3 25-Aug-2017 Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>

dd(1): Incorrect casting of arguments

dd(1) casts many of its numeric arguments from uintmax_t to intmax_t and
back again to detect whether or not the original arguments were negative.
This is not correct, and causes problems with boundary cases, for example
when count is SSIZE_MAX-1.

PR: 191263
Submitted by: will@worrbase.com
Reviewed by: pi, asomers
MFC after: 3 weeks


# fbbd9655 28-Feb-2017 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Renumber copyright clause 4

Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.

Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96


# cd1832fe 18-Feb-2016 Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.org>

Reorganize the handling all-zeroes terminal block in sparse mode

The intent of the previous code in that case was to force
an explicit write, but the implementation was incorrect, and
as a result the write was never performed. This new implementation
instead uses ftruncate(2) to extend the file with a trailing hole.

Also introduce regression tests for these cases.

PR: 189284
(original PR whose fix introduced this bug)

PR: 207092

Differential Revision: D5248
Reviewed by: sobomax,kib
MFC after: 2 weeks


# f4cfd28b 27-Oct-2014 Kurt Jaeger <pi@FreeBSD.org>

bin/dd: revert 273734, as it fails on 32bit platforms

Revert: insufficient testing on 32bit platforms

PR: 191263


# 179eb711 27-Oct-2014 Kurt Jaeger <pi@FreeBSD.org>

bin/dd: Fix incorrect casting of arguments

dd(1) casts many of its numeric arguments from uintmax_t to intmax_t
and back again to detect whether or not the original arguments were
negative. This caused wrong behaviour in some boundary cases:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=18446744073709551615
dd: count cannot be negative

After the fix:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=18446744073709551615
dd: count: Result too large

PR: 191263
Submitted by: will@worrbase.com
Approved by: cognet@


# 540c7825 08-May-2014 Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>

Incorporate feedback from bde and jilles regarding r265472 to dd(1).

* Don't use sysexits.h. Just exit 1 on error and 0 otherwise.
* Don't sacrifice precision by converting the output of clock_gettime() to a
double and then comparing the results. Instead, subtract the values of
the two clock_gettime() calls, then convert to double.
* Don't use CLOCK_MONOTONIC_PRECISE. It's an unportable synonym for
CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
* Use more appropriate names for some local variables.
* In the summary message, round elapsed time to the nearest microsecond.

Reported by: bde, jilles
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-With: 265472


# 37f1b88b 03-May-2014 Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.org>

Minor comment fix: dbsz is the block size as set by bs/ibs/obs,
not the size of the buffer.


# 413ef2a3 03-Apr-2014 Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>

Make C_* contants fit in 32 bits again by using 4 unused bits.

Noticed by: bde


# c3f5e9c5 02-Apr-2014 Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>

Implement GNU's extension of 'status' operand. The GNU syntax is
borrowed where syntax status=noxfer means no transfer statistics
and status=none means no status information at all.

This feature is useful because the statistics information can
sometimes be annoying, and redirecting stderr to /dev/null would
mean error messages also gets silenced.

Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 2 weeks


# a7d5f7eb 19-Oct-2010 Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>

A new jail(8) with a configuration file, to replace the work currently done
by /etc/rc.d/jail.


# fe0506d7 09-Mar-2010 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>

Create the altix project branch. The altix project will add support
for the SGI Altix 350 to FreeBSD/ia64. The hardware used for porting
is a two-module system, consisting of a base compute module and a
CPU expansion module. SGI's NUMAFlex architecture can be an excellent
platform to test CPU affinity and NUMA-aware features in FreeBSD.


# d7f03759 19-Oct-2008 Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@FreeBSD.org>

- Import the HEAD csup code which is the basis for the cvsmode work.


# e3edab4a 15-Aug-2004 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

Add a "fillchar" command line argument to dd(1) that permits the user
to specify an alternative padding character when using a conversion
mode, or when using noerror with sync and an input error occurs. This
facilities reading old and error-prone media by allowing the user to
more effectively mark error blocks in the output stream.


# 6195fb41 06-Apr-2004 Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>

Remove clause 3 from the UCB licenses.

OK'ed by: imp, core


# d493ed0f 06-Mar-2004 Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>

Fixed some style bugs (mainly unsorting and tab lossage in previous commit).


# 6a3d33ac 05-Mar-2004 Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>

Teach dd(1) about parity bits.


# 7503d74f 27-Feb-2003 Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>

WARNS=4 fixes. This would be WARNS=9 if we were -std=99 instead of
-ansi, due to 'long long'.

Reviewed by: green (slightly earlier version)


# 9afa09cd 22-Feb-2002 Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>

Fix warnings inspired by lint, a commercial lint and WARNS=4.


# c15c898e 30-Jun-2000 Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>

Various cleanups are made to reduce warnings and make code prettier :)
Also, check for ftruncate() return value and die on failure, but only
try to ftruncate() when the file is a regular file.


# 7599187e 13-Sep-1999 Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>

Even more dd(1) cleanups! Thanks to Bruce for staying on my case until
we're done (not yet!) :)


# 32952d4b 12-Sep-1999 Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>

ISDISK -> ISSEEK

Allow a device type of D_DISK or D_MEM to be ISSEEK.


# 58687472 12-Sep-1999 Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>

Even more cleanups to dd(1). This is probably the culmination of the
BDEification process of dd(1). Most of the changes are from BDE's archive.
Support for negative offsets is gone again, but the case where you
lseek() onto byte -1 of something from a negative offset using seek/skip
is fixed; if you end up on -1, you won't get a false positive lseek failure.
The biggest changes are to data types (more size_t, for instance) and
argument parsing. skip/seek on /dev/{,k}mem now occurs (instead of "read
until you reach the offset") due to mem devices now being D_DISK. Some
const things are now correctly declared as such, and the "case table"
building is better. The only thing that seems to be left to make dd(1)
everything TOG wants it to be is l10n.


# 2a456239 27-Aug-1999 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 769e5815 13-Jul-1999 Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>

Implement seekability for disk devices (not just regular files).
Also, fix pos_out() to do the same checks pos_in() did.

Done for: jdp, luigi, the good of the world


# 54946e00 20-Jun-1999 Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>

This is the second round of dd(1) changes. Some changes made/reversed by
request of Bruce. More changes may follow later. 'g' multiplier has
been added (i.e. dd seek=5g if=bigfile.) Some minor corrections were made
as well.

Noticed by: bde


# 767bc8ad 19-Jun-1999 Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>

Miscellaneous dd(1) changes: mainly fixing variable types (size_t, ssize_t,
off_t, int, u_int64_t, etc.). dd(1) should now work properly with REALLY
big amounts of data.


# 2f719e706 10-Feb-1998 Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>

Fix printing for bytes read > 4G.

Reviewed by: bde


# 4ddfeabd 11-Oct-1997 Joerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org>

Teach dd(1) about an option to write sparse files. Can be useful for
things like diskless clients' swap files etc.

Submitted by: pascal@zuo.dec.com (Pascal Pederiva) (ages ago, with many
stylistic changes by me)


# b97fa2ef 22-Feb-1997 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$


# 1130b656 14-Jan-1997 Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.


# ad66f7ee 13-Nov-1996 Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>

Bruce says: "You have been programming in the kernel for too long :-)."

and he's right ... I forgot about this floating point stuff you can
use in user-land :-)

Increase precision of duration to microseconds.
No heuristics to avoid overflow in calculation needed - just depend
on DBL_MAX being a bit larger than LONG_MAX.

Use double instead of `struct timeval' in dd.h so that everything
doesn't have to include <sys/time.h>.

Fixed style bugs in recent and old FreeBSD changes.

Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: bde


# 77dfecce 12-Nov-1996 Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>

Increase precision of duration to milliseconds.
Some heuristics to avoid overflow in calculation attempted.


# 89730b29 23-Sep-1994 David Greenman <dg@FreeBSD.org>

Added $Id$


# 4b88c807 26-May-1994 Rodney W. Grimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org>

BSD 4.4 Lite bin Sources