Eric Blake wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the review. I've pushed that. I'm expecting to release coreutils-7.6 tomorrow, probably with the addition only of the documentation (du,df etc --help) changes we're discussing. Currently, we're at gnulib (v0.0-2549-g2c90f1a) for the submodule. None of the patches since then seemed to be essential to coreutils on non-mingw/cygwin systems. Let me know if you'd like to use a newer version.
