Thank you for your answer Jim! On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 08:41:07AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > Henrik Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think that the man page says that Z and Y suffix >> should be supported (for BLOCK and BYTE fields) >> but they are not in dd v6.10. > > Thanks for the report. > However, I don't see a problem. > > I admit it might look like those suffixes are not supported: > > $ dd bs=1 seek=1Z of=x < /dev/null > dd: invalid number `1Z' > [Exit 1] > > But that's just because 1Z and 1Y are larger than 2^64. > You can use "0" instead of "1", to show that they are > indeed accepted: > > $ dd bs=1 seek=0Y of=x < /dev/null > 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 1.4038e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s > > > If you still see a problem, please show the precise > command you tried to run, and the output it produced.
I imagine to understand the technical reasons behind this limitation. I will anyway show you the exact command I tired: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1 count=1Y dd: invalid number `1Y' Here I interpreted "invalid number" as something that isn't a mathematical integer rather than just being too big. May I most humbly suggest a clarification in the manual? "BLOCKS and BYTES ... Z, Y. BLOCKS and BYTES are required to be smaller than 2^64." (Given of course that this statement holds true on all platforms today where dd is used.) Friendly regards, /Henrik Holst _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
