Re: [PATCH] Re: dd blocks/bytes at a time

[Matthew Woehlke]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> I see that both freebsd6 and netbsd1.6 disallow the usage in
> your test case:
>
>   netbsd$ echo x | /bin/dd bs=3 ibs=10 obs=10 conv=sync | wc -c
>   dd: ibs: illegal argument combination or already set
>   0
>
> Solaris 10 does what you propose.
> Can anyone check other implementations?

I can test oodles of systems (about six Unix flavors across almost a 
dozen OS/HW combinations), but I'm not clear what you are looking for. 
Should I just send the output from each system?

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