Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue trashed partition table (invalid args not trapped)

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Florian,

Florian Sedivy wrote:
> > To help avoid these mistakes in the future I'm making two changes to ddrescue:
> > 1) remove the short option names '-1' and '-2'.
> > 2) never allow the writing of logs (--log-rates, --log-reads)
> ... or mapfiles ...
> > to devices.

Mapfiles are already tested:

$ ddrescue in out /dev/sdc
ddrescue: Mapfile exists and is not a regular file.

'--log-rates' and '--log-reads' are supposed to be "advanced" options, 
but I see no reason to allow them write to devices.


Best regards,
Antonio.