GNU bug report logs - #20948
Facing error using coreutil "dd - convert and copy a file"

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Sunil Yadav <sunil_sasken <at> yahoo.com>

Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 06:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 20948 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Sunil Yadav <sunil_sasken <at> yahoo.com>, 20948 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20948: Facing error using coreutil "dd - convert and copy
 a file"
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 10:26:49 +0100

On 01/07/15 06:44, Sunil Yadav wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In one of my tool unix command "dd" to convert and copy a file has been used.
> 
> Most of time this commands runs well while executing with following options
> 
> dd ibs=20b if=/tmp/test3
> 
> output:
> 16019+1 records in
> 320380+1 records out
> 164034561 bytes (164 MB) copied, 4.92556 s, 33.3 MB/s
> 
> With coreutil version 8.4 I am facing following error:
> 
>     dd: writing in "Standard stdin": The connection was reset by the communication partner
> 
> output:
> 102+0 records in
> 2036+0 records out
> 1042432 bytes (1,0 MB) copy, 0,00816693 s, 128 MB/s
> 
> what could be the reason for this error?


sounds like /tmp/test3 is a socket and the writing is
forcibly closing it while dd is reading?
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