tee appears to drop its input (i.e. it does not write it into the specified
log file) if stdout is closed.
I didn't expect this behaviour, and POSIX
http://www.opengroup.org/susv3/utilities/tee.html
does not mandate this behaviour either. Rather, it says:
"If any file operands are specified,
Hi,
Pádraig Brady wrote on 29/06/08 11:35:
Jon Grant wrote:
Hi,
I am running dd from coreutils 6.10 on the latest Knoppix disc, trying
to copy a failing drive to a new drive so i can try mount the partition.
I noticed that dd tries the to read the same 512-byte block 40 times
before giving up
Jon Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I noticed that dd tries the to read the same 512-byte block 40 times
> before giving up. Could it not give up on each block after say.. 1 or 2
> tries?
dd just tells the kernel to read the block, and immediately gives up on
it when the kernel returns an err
Jon Grant wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running dd from coreutils 6.10 on the latest Knoppix disc, trying
> to copy a failing drive to a new drive so i can try mount the partition.
>
> I noticed that dd tries the to read the same 512-byte block 40 times
> before giving up.
In addition if dd can't read t
