Re: [d-i] today's treecompare
Responding to the message of <[🔎] 20011020010311.D4221@plato.local.lan>
from Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:45:39AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > >=20
> > > busybox dd does not produce output like GNU dd.
> >=20
> > So you have specifics? I've not seen a bug report from you.
>
> well it at least didn't used to display any output.
>
> but parsing some basically informative verbosity output from a utility
> is a damned fragile kludge of a way to do something, what if the
> format of this output changes in the future?
Well, given that the output format is specified by SUSv2[1], it is
more robust than you might think.
Matt
1. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/dd.html
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