What would people think about a patch to add a GNU-style "fullblock" iflag option? Would that be a better/more-mergeable way to tackle the same issue? I could write one up if it's got a shot at getting merged.
On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Cathey, Jim <[email protected]> wrote: > Anybody here ever actually used dd to read from an actual _tape_ drive? > Short reads are the norm, there. (Or were.) The bs= size was the > _maximum_ record size, but the records could be, and often were, shorter. > Please don't break dd so that it can only work on 'b'lock devices, and not > 'c'har devices. > > -- Jim > >
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