Re: dd skip bug?

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Well it's more awkward to output the warning for all cases,
>> as currently we can't distinguish between short reads from
>> a pipe, and a partial block at the end of the stream.
>> Thus the error message ".. past end of input file"
>> is not appropriate for both cases.
>> Therefore I split out the 2 error cases in the patch below.
>> It's more consistent but I'm a little worried it's too involved.
>
> It is too involved actually. I'll just do a more generic error message:
>
> if (us_blocks || (!input_offset_overflow && us_bytes))
>   {
>     error (0, 0,
>            _("%s: unable to skip to requested offset"),
>            quote (input_file));
>   }

Sounds good.  Thanks.