GNU bug report logs - #22277
'dd' - stats are not what expected

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Message #13 received at 22277 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>,
 Mike Fiedler <micfied <at> yandex.com>, 22277 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22277: 'dd' - stats are not what expected
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:14:48 -0800

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Paul Eggert wrote:

> Ah. Is this due to glitches when the size grows from (say) "1023 KiB" to "1.0
> MiB", or is it something else?

Assuming that's the problem, I installed the attached further patches to try to 
fix it. The gnulib update fixes an off-by-one bug I encountered in gnulib while 
testing this.

[0001-dd-append-spaces-to-shorter-status-progress-line.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

[0002-build-update-gnulib-submodule-to-latest.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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