Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dd does not issue another read() request to fill the input buffer, > before proceeding with the write(). I'm not sure why it does this.
Because that's the way it's always done it. :-) Anyway, POSIX requires this behavior. See <http://www.opengroup.org/susv3/utilities/dd.html>. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
