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Re: coreutils-5.92 - dd skip option completely broken
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: coreutils-5.92 - dd skip option completely broken |
Date: |
Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:04:42 +0100 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> That's an embarrassing bug! Thanks for reporting it. I installed
> this patch into CVS coreutils (main branch).
>
> We should add a test case but I'm not offhand sure which file it
> should go into. Jim, advice?
I'd prefer that it go in tests/dd/skip-seek, partly because
the name fits, and also because I want to move away from
bourne-shell-based tests -- at least when it's easy to do so.
Thanks for dealing with this.
> 2005-10-31 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>
> * src/dd.c (skip): Fix off-by-one error reported by
> Theodoros V. Kalamatianos.
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