bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed

[Bruno Haible]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Could you give the error returned for:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=ifile conv=fdatasync count=100
> dd if=ifile iflag=nocache count=0

Here are the results:

$ ./dd if=/dev/zero of=ifile conv=fdatasync count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
51200 bytes (51 kB) copied, 0.14338 s, 357 kB/s
$ ./dd if=ifile iflag=nocache count=0
./dd: failed to discard cache for: `ifile': Not a typewriter
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000375367 s, 0.0 kB/s

Bruno
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