#!/bin/sh # make sure that dd doesn't allocate memory unnecessarily # Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ dd require_ulimit_v_ # count and skip is zero, we don't need to allocate memory (ulimit -v 20000; dd bs=30M count=0) || fail=1 (ulimit -v 20000; dd ibs=30M count=0) || fail=1 (ulimit -v 20000; dd obs=30M count=0) || fail=1 # Use a fifo for which seek fails, but read does not if mkfifo tape; then # for non seekable output we need to allocate buffer when needed echo 1 > tape& (ulimit -v 20000; dd bs=30M skip=1 count=0 if=tape) && fail=1 echo 1 > tape& (ulimit -v 20000; dd ibs=30M skip=1 count=0 if=tape) && fail=1 echo 1 > tape& (ulimit -v 20000; dd obs=30M skip=1 count=0 if=tape) || fail=1 # for non seekable output we need to allocate buffer when needed echo 1 > tape& (ulimit -v 20000; dd bs=30M seek=1 count=0 of=tape) && fail=1 echo 1 > tape& (ulimit -v 20000; dd obs=30M seek=1 count=0 of=tape) && fail=1 echo 1 > tape& (ulimit -v 20000; dd ibs=30M seek=1 count=0 of=tape) || fail=1 fi Exit $fail