Re: possible bug - output stream handling inconsistency in dd

[Theodoros V. Kalamatianos]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Before proceeding too far in this matter can you please check the
> compatibility of your solution with the proposed action in XCU ERN 64?
> Please see <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/aardvark/latest/xcubug2.txt>
> and look for 'Enhancement Request Number 64'.  Thanks.

Hmm, I didn't know about this text, but I had reached the same conclusion, 
as mentioned in one of my other messages. So I guess we have to fix dd to 
output null bytes to stdout, correct ?


Regards,

Theodoros Kalamatianos