Subject: bug#68216: An instance of DD receiving data from another instance with bs=1M, reports the wrong record count.

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 23:04:38 +0000

On 02/01/2024 22:45, [email-masked] wrote:
> Hi Pádraig,
> 
> iflag=fullblock seems to resolve this experience and the man page
> excerpt provided makes sense though those lines make no appearance in
> the man pages on Archlinux. I will follow up with the distro maintainers.

As would explicitly specifying obs on the second dd instance.

cheers,
Pádraig