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bug#14897: dd skip exit code


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#14897: dd skip exit code
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 07:40:31 -0700
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On 07/18/2013 02:03 AM, ffx wrote:
> Is it the expected behaviour to have a success exit code when skip fails, 
> even with the notice message "cannot skip..."?

That's the change that was put in a few years ago, yes:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=460ebb078ed7bf249af745d8725d6c37e7f15b57

As the changelog says, POSIX doesn't say what to do in this situation.
Traditional 'dd' (e.g., Solaris 11.1) exits with status 3 (!).





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