GNU bug report logs - #12626
Bug?: dd limited to <2G read size (2G-8K) on 64 bit machine?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>

Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:13:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #40 received at 12626-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,
	Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>,
	12626-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12626: Bug?: dd limited to <2G read size (2G-8K) on 64 bit
	machine?
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:44:55 -0600

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On 10/12/2012 09:40 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> It is a bug if there is a check for short reads
> and that message doesn't get triggered.

Short reads are NOT an error in dd.  If you want to pretend that short
reads didn't happen, by re-reading until the buffer is full, then use
iflag=fullblock, as has already been mentioned to you earlier in this
thread.

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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