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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#54112: dd seek_bytes etc. is confusing |
Date: | Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:03:46 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.5.0 |
Here's another way to put it. Currently this: dd oseek=100KiBmeans "seek 102,400 blocks". It should simply mean "seek 102,400 bytes", which is what it says. And if we change oseek's meaning this way, we don't need "oseek_bytes".
Although this is an incompatible change to GNU dd, I don't think it'll affect real-world uses (who would use oseek in such a confusing way now?) and overall it will be a win.
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