Subject: bug#14108: Bug in dd

From: Bob Proulx <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:02:23 -0600

Bob Proulx wrote:
> However errors are reported normally.
> 
>   $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/full bs=1k count=1
>   dd: writing ‘/dev/full’: No space left on device
>   1+0 records in
>   0+0 records out
>   0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000184665 s, 0.0 kB/s

I meant to say:

  $ dd status=none if=/dev/zero of=/dev/full bs=1k count=1
  dd: writing ‘/dev/full’: No space left on device

Showing that errors are reported normally even if status=none is
given.

Bob