[PATCH] dd: fix corrupted/incomplete reads/skips.

[Nicholas Clark]

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 <jcathey at ciena.com> 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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