GNU bug report logs - #15680
dd: suggest iflag=fullblock ... but only if count > 1

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>

Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 06:49:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

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

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From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 15680 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15680: dd: suggest iflag=fullblock ... but only if count > 1
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:26:28 +0200 (CEST)

> On October 22, 2013 at 11:25 AM Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> wrote:
> Also I mentioned this particular case with count at:
> http://bugs.gnu.org/9734#18
> 
> Copying from there...
> 
> "Note the particular case where count=1 is not warned about,
> as with a single read, one doesn't know if we're just at EOF.
> Also it's probably a quite common idiom to, consume available data
> up to $bs bytes."

Thanks.
To avoid that this question comes up again: should we add
this into the Texinfo file?

Have a nice day,
Berny
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