From ef38b392627b31abf6b99273311d2a155023e73a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 01:31:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Support noerror option

---
 coreutils/dd.c  | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 include/usage.h |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/coreutils/dd.c b/coreutils/dd.c
index 09e6cccc7..fb78d5355 100644
--- a/coreutils/dd.c
+++ b/coreutils/dd.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static const struct suffix_mult dd_suffixes[] = {
 
 int dd_main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
-	int i, ifd, ofd, oflag, sync_flag = FALSE, trunc = TRUE;
+	int i, ifd, ofd, oflag, sync_flag = FALSE, trunc = TRUE, noerror = FALSE;
 	size_t in_full = 0, in_part = 0, out_full = 0, out_part = 0;
 	size_t bs = 512, count = -1;
 	ssize_t n;
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ int dd_main(int argc, char **argv)
 				} else if (strncmp("sync", buf, 4) == 0) {
 					sync_flag = TRUE;
 					buf += 4;
+				} else if (strncmp("noerror", buf, 7) == 0) {
+					noerror = TRUE;
+					buf += 7;
 				} else {
 					error_msg_and_die("invalid conversion `%s'", argv[i]+5);
 				}
@@ -131,9 +134,19 @@ int dd_main(int argc, char **argv)
 	}
 
 	while (in_full + in_part != count) {
+		if (noerror) {
+			/* Pre-zero the buffer when doing the noerror thing */
+			memset(buf, '\0', bs);
+		}
 		n = safe_read(ifd, buf, bs);
-		if (n < 0)
-			perror_msg_and_die("%s", infile);
+		if (n < 0) {
+			if (noerror) {
+				n = bs;
+				perror_msg("%s", infile);
+			} else {
+				perror_msg_and_die("%s", infile);
+			}
+		}
 		if (n == 0)
 			break;
 		if (n == bs)
diff --git a/include/usage.h b/include/usage.h
index ad34dfcff..d0f3dfc99 100644
--- a/include/usage.h
+++ b/include/usage.h
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@
 
 #define dd_trivial_usage \
 	"[if=FILE] [of=FILE] [bs=N] [count=N] [skip=N]\n" \
-	"\t  [seek=N] [conv=notrunc|sync]"
+	"\t  [seek=N] [conv=notrunc|noerror|sync]"
 #define dd_full_usage \
 	"Copy a file, converting and formatting according to options\n\n" \
 	"\tif=FILE\t\tread from FILE instead of stdin\n" \
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@
 	"\tskip=N\t\tskip N input blocks\n" \
 	"\tseek=N\t\tskip N output blocks\n" \
 	"\tconv=notrunc\tdon't truncate output file\n" \
+	"\tconv=noerror\tcontinue after read errors\n" \
 	"\tconv=sync\tpad blocks with zeros\n" \
 	"\n" \
 	"Numbers may be suffixed by c (x1), w (x2), b (x512), kD (x1000), k (x1024),\n" \
-- 
2.25.1