Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 10:51:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more dd(1) weirdness Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904061048440.50221-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <23122.923407937@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
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> On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 12:07:09 -0400, Brian Feldman wrote:
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> > I think I've fixed all of the dd(1) weirdness, and these patches should be
> > committed (except for the part about block device lseeking, that should be
> > better thought out now).
>
> When you say "I've fixed all of the dd(1) weirdness", does that mean you
> believe your patches fix the reboots that occur when one tries to write
> past the end of a block device, eg ``dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0''?
When did this start happening? I meant only dd itself, but I didn't know
that trying to write past the end of a bdev crashes you now... then again,
you're SUPPOSED to use a cdev to do that.
>
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>
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