GNU bug report logs - #7362
dd strangeness

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Lucia Rotger <lucia <at> aircomp.aero>

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:26:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 7362 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7362: dd strangeness
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:09:54 +0000

On 04/03/11 07:44, Paul Eggert wrote:
> +      /* If bs=SIZE is given and iflag=fullblock is not, warn if a

Do you check that bs= is specified?
Do you want to as it's independent of the counting issue?

Anyway, with this patch the following slightly contrived example will warn:

# Output first 2 parts
$ (echo part1; sleep 1; echo part2; sleep 1; echo discard) |
  dd count=2 obs=1 2>/dev/null
part1
part2

So I'm a bit wary about adding this at all.

cheers,
Pádraig.
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