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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2005-05-28 04:22:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2005-05-28 04:22:43 +0000 |
| commit | 5923469a3c5c728dba30c969ecc4913a06558892 (patch) | |
| tree | 8fe6e8118cf2498220f61ec52b981b478e4599d0 /NEWS | |
| parent | 8f10bd11cffc61bcdc1262fad90811f67b2ec2f7 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-5923469a3c5c728dba30c969ecc4913a06558892.tar.xz | |
dd seek=N now conforms to POSIX if the output isn't seekable.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 |
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@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- On hosts lacking the INFO signal, dd no longer treats the USR1 signal as if it were INFO when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. + If the file F is non-seekable and contains fewer than N blocks, + then before copying "dd seek=N of=F" now extends F with zeroed + blocks until F contains N blocks. + fold changes: When POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, "fold file -3" is now equivalent to |