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bug#15680: dd: suggest iflag=fullblock ... but only if count > 1
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#15680: dd: suggest iflag=fullblock ... but only if count > 1 |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:03:10 +0100 |
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On 10/22/2013 11:26 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> On October 22, 2013 at 11:25 AM Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Also I mentioned this particular case with count at:
>> http://bugs.gnu.org/9734#18
>>
>> Copying from there...
>>
>> "Note the particular case where count=1 is not warned about,
>> as with a single read, one doesn't know if we're just at EOF.
>> Also it's probably a quite common idiom to, consume available data
>> up to $bs bytes."
>
> Thanks.
> To avoid that this question comes up again: should we add
> this into the Texinfo file?
Maybe, though we have to be careful of coupling the
docs too tightly with the code.
Worth a source comment at least.