Re: portable use of 'dd'

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
>     This particular case is only weak evidence that 'dd' needs to be in
>     the list, since the code uses 'dd' only when /dev/urandom is readable,
>     and I expect that 'dd' is supported everywhere /dev/urandom is.

On the other hand, can you point out a system which does not support 'dd'?
You make it sound as if *not* having 'dd' in the list would help portability
to some platforms. Which platforms?

Bruno