From d5ab05998ca068b9a2e217285b15318ad2e5bdb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:17:44 +0100 Subject: 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. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2