bug#29012: od: busy skip on block devices

[Assaf Gordon]

severity 29012 wishlist
retitle 29012 od: add skip option
tags 29012 wontfix
close 29012
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 2017-10-27 11:59 p.m., Christian Kögler wrote:
> Am 27. Oktober 2017 07:25:25 MESZ schrieb "Pádraig Brady" <address@hidden>:
> > On 26/10/17 08:13, Christian Kögler wrote:
> > > If od is used on block devices together with skip, od reads the
> > skipped bytes instead of seeking it.
> >
> > Yes it has done that from the initial version.
> > Note od concatenates multiple files, and skips across
> > all of them, so consequently restricts itself to
> > seeking where it knows the file length (regular files).
> >
> > I suppose we could try to seek if a single argument was specified.
> >
> > As an alternative you could skip with dd and pipe to od?

> I loose the absolute address offset, but in our case a way to go.
> Thanks for helping so quickly!

Given the above, I'm closing this item.
Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.

-assaf