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Re: dd or other bug?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: dd or other bug? |
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Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:18:20 -0700 |
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Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> writes:
> dd does not issue another read() request to fill the input buffer,
> before proceeding with the write(). I'm not sure why it does this.
Because that's the way it's always done it. :-)
Anyway, POSIX requires this behavior. See
<http://www.opengroup.org/susv3/utilities/dd.html>.