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Re: possible bug - output stream handling inconsistency in dd
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: possible bug - output stream handling inconsistency in dd |
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Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:08:17 -0800 |
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"Theodoros V. Kalamatianos" <address@hidden> writes:
> So I guess we have to fix dd to output null bytes to stdout, correct?
It should still lseek and ftruncate, if stdout is a regular file, a
directory (!), or a shared memory object.
Otherwise I guess it has to write null bytes, yes.