On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 05:30:39PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Shaul Karl wrote:
>
> > Is the following expected?
> >
> > # printf "\xa2" | dd of=/dev/port bs=1 count=1 skip=675
> > 0+0 records in
> > 0+0 records out
> > 0 bytes transferred in 0.001999 seconds (0 bytes/sec)
> > # printf "$?\n"
> > 0
> >
> >I run it as root. Why there were 0 bytes transferred and still it is
> >a 0 return code? Is there any significance in the fact that there were
> >
> >
> What does strace(1) say about this?
>
strace was helpful.
Should have issued:
printf "\xa2" | dd of=/dev/port bs=1 count=1 seek=675
that is seek and not skip at the end. If someone is curious I can send
the full output of strace.
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you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I
have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two
ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw (sent by shaulk @ 013 . net . il)
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