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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2008-11-21 23:17:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-11-22 10:20:31 +0100 |
| commit | d5ab05998ca068b9a2e217285b15318ad2e5bdb8 (patch) | |
| tree | 67b4c6ecdd6839fc0e47527676dbcc3a86124955 /doc/coreutils.texi | |
| parent | a2be861b04f2bf8f967e7aa8683c813e7ebf5811 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-d5ab05998ca068b9a2e217285b15318ad2e5bdb8.tar.xz | |
Revert part of "dd: avoid unnecessary memory copies"
This reverts part of commit fbd87029cfc494a72bb73ade27ef46382c5bc832.
Paul Eggert noticed the problem in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-11/msg00153.html
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Clarify.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 935129f25..c9c61cef0 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7573,6 +7573,9 @@ This makes @command{dd} write @var{bytes} per block. Set both input and output block sizes to @var{bytes}. This makes @command{dd} read and write @var{bytes} per block, overriding any @samp{ibs} and @samp{obs} settings. +In addition, if no data-transforming @option{conv} option is specified, +each input block is copied to the output as a single block, +without aggregating short reads. @item cbs=@var{bytes} @opindex cbs |