Subject: Re: bug#20948: Facing error using coreutil "dd - convert and copy a file"

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:34:33 -0600

tags 20948 moreinfo
close 20948
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 01/07/15 02:54 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Sunil Yadav wrote:
>>
>> With coreutil version 8.4 I am facing following error:
>>
>>      dd: writing in "Standard stdin": The connection was reset by the 
>> communication partner
> 
> Is that the exact message you're getting?  Nothing like that message 
> seems to be in the source code.
> 
> Can you run the following command instead?
> 
>    strace -o tr dd ibs=20b if=/tmp/test3
> 
> and look in 'tr' for the system calls that fail and generate the 
> diagnostics you're seeing?
> 
> Can you reproduce the problem in coreutils 8.23, the current version?  
> Perhaps the bug, whatever it is, has already been fixed.

With no further follow-ups in 3 years,
I'm closing this bug.

-assaf