bug#17422: dd giving different results between UNIX and LINUX

[Baggett, Don]

Hello,

Thanks to all. I will work the UNIX administrators to get the patch put in.

This is the dd version:
dd --version
dd (coreutils) 5.97
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp.

Thanks,
Don

-----Original Message-----
From: Pádraig Brady [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 7:41 AM
To: Bernhard Voelker
Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden; Baggett, Don
Subject: Re: bug#17422: dd giving different results between UNIX and LINUX

On 05/07/2014 08:20 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 05/07/2014 03:43 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Thanks for reporting that bug.  Who would have thought that after all 
>> these years, GNU 'dd' would still be mishandling EBCDIC conversion?  The 
>> GNU dd implementation of conv=ascii is clearly incorrect.  I installed 
>> the attached patch.
> 
> ooh, thanks!
> 
> There is a testing artifact left in the new test:
> 
>   > cp ./in ./out ./exp /tmp
> 
> I corrected this besides other minor nits in the attached patch.
> Pushing later.
> 
> Have a nice day,
> Berny
> 

Wow nice catch on the incorrect tables Paul.

Bernhard the test adjustments look good.

thanks!
Pádraig.




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