-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 9/10/2009 4:26 AM: > I don't like last-minute changes, but this seems safe, considering it's in > an obscure corner of dd. Who actually uses dd's conv=unblock option? > Of those precious few, who would notice the additional newline that > dd-with-this-patch now prints for most combinations of output size > and conversion block size? > > Comments welcome. > > BTW, this change makes GNU dd compatible with the vendor dd from at > least Solaris 10 and FreeBSD.
Sounds like a good reason to me. And certainly more consistent with other tools (I always get annoyed when Solaris sed refuses to operate on trailing data that does not end in newline). I didn't see anything wrong with the patch. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqo6YEACgkQ84KuGfSFAYC+BgCeKIxsfxpeiA4bmsj5xxp3Ehlq tCUAn3psN3/F+voDgodHFzKGuzUXariH =IEeI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
