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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2011-03-05 02:21:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2011-03-05 02:21:45 +0000 |
| commit | 433a7c614f0fbce3ba3346409af847d82670d284 (patch) | |
| tree | 3d311c28a89ea81cc5bd1cd01455673ab7a44cfc /doc | |
| parent | 7525860fb9c158cba362037fba491d82a09613c6 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-433a7c614f0fbce3ba3346409af847d82670d284.tar.xz | |
doc: clarify that `dd bs=` can immediately output short reads
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Clarify that bs= can
cause parital reads to be immediately written to output.
* src/dd.c (usage): Hint that bs= can cause partial writes.
See http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8171
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 9f6c734ca..ae3712dba 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7971,8 +7971,8 @@ 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. +input is copied to the output as soon as it's read, +even if it is smaller than the block size. @item cbs=@var{bytes} @opindex cbs |