On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Theodoros V. Kalamatianos wrote:
It seems that it just reads and drops one more record than it should.
I have verified with `wc' that the characters are indeed dropped end not e.g.
replaced with a null. I'll see if I can trace this bug, but it may take some
time.
Ok, maybe not so much time :-) The following patch should fix this:
# diff -uNr dd.c.orig dd.c
--- dd.c.orig 2005-10-01 08:54:57.000000000 +0300
+++ dd.c 2005-10-31 09:58:00.000000000 +0200
@@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@
if (fdesc == STDIN_FILENO)
advance_input_offset (nread);
}
- while (records-- != 0);
+ while (--records != 0);
return records;
}
Note that in records-- the variable is decreased _after_ it's used in the
comparison, causing one additional loop iteration. By changing that to
--records we avoid this.
Regards,
Theodoros Kalamatianos
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