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bug#15680: dd: suggest iflag=fullblock ... but only if count > 1
From: |
Bernhard Voelker |
Subject: |
bug#15680: dd: suggest iflag=fullblock ... but only if count > 1 |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:26:28 +0200 (CEST) |
> 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?
Have a nice day,
Berny