On 10/22/2013 07:47 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > 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?
My understanding is that it is intentional. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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