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dd: suggest iflag=fullblock ... but only if count > 1

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: 15680 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15680: dd: suggest iflag=fullblock ... but only if count > 1
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:03:10 +0100

On 10/22/2013 11:26 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>>  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?

Maybe, though we have to be careful of coupling the
docs too tightly with the code.
Worth a source comment at least.

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