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2000-10-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
+ Shred can now determine the size of a block devices (e.g. /dev/fd0)
+ by writing until a write operation fails.
* src/shred.c: Include assert.h.
(fillrand): Add a parameter, size_max.
- Add an assertion.
Adjust caller.
+ Add an assertion.
(dopass): Break out of the `for (;;)' loop if size < offset.
That can happen now that dopass is called with SIZE == -1.
(do_wipefd): Accept a length of zero only for a regular file.