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Re: [PATCH] delaying dd allocation
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Bernhard Voelker |
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Re: [PATCH] delaying dd allocation |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:35:10 +0100 |
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On 01/23/2013 11:48 AM, Ondrej Oprala wrote:
> Hi Bernhard,
> thanks for the remarks. Also, you were right about the corner case, the
> succession of commands
> $ touch a
> $ dd if=a seek=1 bs=1
> $ ^D
> actually caused a segfault. Sorry, I didn't notice it before.
>
> I added a few lines to alloc_obuf, which cover the case when the initial
> ibuf allocation is skipped but
> obuf needs to be allocated and is to be set to ibuf and removed the
> newly redundant check before memset.
>
> Thanks,
> Ondrej
Hi Padraig,
I'm afraid this one slipped from my/our list. ;-/
AFAIR that last patch was okay, but we should have a look
on it again. Do you think we should include it in 8.21?
Have a nice day,
Berny
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