Hi there, On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:
> I have tried doing a "strace dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/null bs=512 > count=1", and I can see the read() block and it seems to be > interruptible without visible side-effects, but I don't really know how > I could harness this in a shell script Why not send it to a (non-existent) file instead of to /dev/null, then check the size of the file? There's got to be a better way... 73, Ged. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
