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Re: dd does not handle input from pipes correctly (coreutils-5.93)


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: dd does not handle input from pipes correctly (coreutils-5.93)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 06:04:47 -0700
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According to James Youngman on 11/18/2005 1:28 AM:
> Many systems now include the 'buffer' program (I have it here on an
> Ubuntu box).  If you have it, try piping the data through 'buffer -z
> 4096' (or whatever PIPE_BUF is on your machine if it's not 4096).

Is it worth adding buffer as one of the coreutils?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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