dd(1) issues a nice warning about short reads ... src/dd if=/dev/random of=sample bs=1000 count=2 src/dd: warning: partial read (128 bytes); suggest iflag=fullblock 0+2 records in 0+2 records out 256 bytes (256 B) copied, 0.000423371 s, 605 kB/s
... but only if count was > 1: src/dd if=/dev/random of=sample bs=1000 count=1 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 128 bytes (128 B) copied, 0.000270231 s, 474 kB/s Is this by intension or an off-by-one? I'd like to provide a patch in the latter case. Have a nice day, Berny
