On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 3:15 PM, Daniel Hartmeier <dan...@benzedrine.ch> wrote: > I think they meant dd and just didn't care about efficiency: > > http://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=407
Thanks for digging this out! > Does ghead -c beat a simple buffer loop? Your head-c.c seems to have the same performance as ghead -c, presumably because they're doing the same thing. :)