Hi, 'dd' seems to behave different if the 'if' is /dev/random than if it is anything else, e.g. /dev/zero:
*# sh # dd if=/dev/zero of=zero.out bs=65536 count=11+0 records in1+0 records out65536 bytes transferred in 0.001 secs (65536000 bytes/sec)# ls -l zero.out-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 65536 Jan 4 21:30 zero.out# dd if=/dev/random of=random.out bs=65536 count=10+1 records in0+1 records out32 bytes transferred in 0.001 secs (32000 bytes/sec)# ls -l random.out-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 32 Jan 4 21:30 random.out# dd if=/dev/random of=random.out.2 bs=65536 count=20480+2048 records in0+2048 records out65536 bytes transferred in 0.054 secs (1213629 bytes/sec)# ls -l random.out.2-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 65536 Jan 4 21:31 random.out.2# uname -aNetBSD arm64 9.99.102 NetBSD 9.99.102 (MIKE64) #0: Wed Oct 26 22:54:20 UTC 2022 mac@arm64:/usr/obj/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/MIKE64 evbarm* Am I doing something stupid? Thanks! Mike
