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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2008-11-21 23:17:44 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-11-22 10:20:31 +0100
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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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@@ -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