I suspect this is an Illumos bug. I'm top posting this because it's my phone, and I think the Illumos developers mailing list should confirm my suspicions.
Dan Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all) > On Jul 29, 2014, at 8:21 AM, Janne Savikko <jsavi...@niksula.hut.fi> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've used dd to create sparse files, and I noticed that dd does not work as > expected with count=0 option, but keeps writing indefinitely. This does not > happen with dd of Ubuntu 12.04,14.04, Solaris 11 Express (snv_151a), OSX > 10.10 beta or OpenBSD 5.5. > > OmniOS build that I've tested this problem: omnios-b281e50 i86pc > This behavior happens also with old Solaris 10 (Generic_139555-08 sun4v). > > Manual pages state "count=n, Copies only n input blocks". So according to > documentation I expect it to copy only 0 blocks. > > Is this desired behavior (and should documentation be fixed) or a bug? > > > Cheers, > Janne > _______________________________________________ > OmniOS-discuss mailing list > OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com > http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss