dd skip bug?

[Pádraig Brady]

dd handles skip weirdly

disk=/dev/sda8
dd if=$disk bs=8M count=1 skip=1000 of=/dev/null  #ok
dd if=$disk bs=8M count=1 skip=1000K of=/dev/null #reads whole disk! as seek 
fails

I had a 10s look at the source and noticed a comment
saying POSIX doesn't specify what we should do when
skipping past the end of input. For seekable files though,
reading the whole thing is unexpected to me at least.
I would expect it to do:

if (seekable && !seek(skip_len))
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

Pádraig.