Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Small suggestion regarding the tutorial (in the online doc)

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Hi Scott,
> > One thing you may want to do is as follows: now we need to provide 
> > --force in order to allow writing to a device and not a file. In such 
> > cases, you may query the model number and serial number like smartctl 
> > does, and print them to the console, and ask for a last confirmation 
> > from the user ("Please check the model and serial numbers on the hard 
> > disks, and press Y if they are correct").
> > I'm not sure how can you do that in a device-independent manner 
> > though. You can find some C code to start with here:
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2432759/usb-drive-serial-number-under-linux-c 
>
> ...
>
> Request:
> IF you do this, PLEASE include an option flag to bypass it, for those 
> of us that may call ddrescue from another program.
Fully agree! Sorry I forgot to mention this.

Peter