From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 21:36:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Remove noctty flag from dd.
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~1832
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eee12ddc9d3ad84c2242c9c100ac5adaa8a83458;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Remove noctty flag from dd.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 3b8cbe3108..5ed8f749e4 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -6666,18 +6666,12 @@ Use non-blocking I/O.
 @cindex symbolic links, following
 Do not follow symbolic links.
 
-@item noctty
-@opindex noctty
-@cindex controlling terminal
-Do not assign the file to be a controlling terminal for @command{dd}.
-This has no effect when the file is not a terminal.
-
 @end table
 
 These flags are not supported on all systems, and @samp{dd} rejects
 attempts to use them when they are not supported.  When reading from
-standard input or writing to standard output, the @samp{nofollow} and
-@samp{noctty} flags should not be specified, and the other flags
+standard input or writing to standard output, the @samp{nofollow} flag
+should not be specified, and the other flags
 (e.g., @samp{nonblock}) can affect how other processes behave with the
 affected file descriptors, even after @command{dd} exits.