Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Patch to support -d on Darwin and Mac OS X

[MacXperte]

Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> 
> Christian Franke wrote:
>> An alternative patch is attached. It does not require DARWIN defined, 
>> but relies on O_DIRECT undefined or defined as 0 in Darwin's includes. 
> 
> Thanks for this excellent patch. I suppose that if some future Darwin's 
> headers define O_DIRECT it means that Darwin supports O_DIRECT, so your 
> patch should also work in such a future Darwin version. :)
> 

Did this patch make it into the regular build of ddrscue yet or will it soon
be integrated?

What is the advantage of direct-mode over using raw devices?
What are the differences between those methods anyway?
Why is the direct-mode not used on the first run but on the rerun in all
examples?

BTW: in Darwin and Mac OS X the raw devices are created automatically and
can be accessed simply by adding "r" at the beginning of the
device-identifier, e.g.: /dev/rdisk2 or /dev/rdisk0s6

Greetings, 
Florian Sedivy

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