Re: dd and closed stderr

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
>>    due to their running on a kernel older than what was implied by headers
>>    and libraries tested at configure time.
>
> This part of NEWS describes a fix to a regression in 7.5.
>
>>
>> +  dd now returns non-zero status if it encountered a write error while
>> +  printing a summary to stderr.
>> +
>
> I've traced this to a regression introduced in 6.11:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436368
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=381e69ea
>
>> For consistency with most of the shell code in coreutils,
>> please elide double quotes in simple shell variable assignments:
>>
>> p=$abs_top_builddir
>>
>> Hmm... I see that close-stdout did it the same way.
>> You're welcome to adjust that one, too.
>
> OK, here's my updated series.

Thanks for adding the dates in NEWS.
Added comments in dd.c are an improvement.
copy.c is improved, too.

Thanks!