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Re: dd skip= misbehavior
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: dd skip= misbehavior |
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Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:04:44 -0800 |
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"Dmitry V. Levin" <address@hidden> writes:
> Here is a simple test case to illustrate the issue:
Thanks for that nice test case. I hand to change your "/bin/true" to
"sleep 10" to reproduce the situation on Solaris 10. For what it's
worth, GNU dd (coreutils 5.94) behaves like Solaris 10 dd here.
It does certainly sound like a shortcoming in the POSIX spec, at any
rate.