bug#34923: Message/race bug in 'dd'

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34923 notabug severity 34923 wishlist retitle 34923 dd: add messages about IO errors stop On 2019-03-19 9:44 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: Daniel A. Gauthier wrote: NOTICE that the "+nn" value on the line is always one off.  It says +0 after the first error, +1 after the second, etc. until the

bug#34923: Message/race bug in 'dd'

2019-03-19 Thread Paul Eggert
Daniel A. Gauthier wrote: NOTICE that the "+nn" value on the line is always one off. It says +0 after the first error, +1 after the second, etc. until the correct count of error/short blocks is given at the end. The count is supposed to just count short blocks, not errors. This is a POSIX req

bug#34923: Message/race bug in 'dd'

2019-03-19 Thread Daniel A. Gauthier
Coreutils / DD / stderr output warning / Timing or count error: I may or may not have reported this bug many years (decade?) ago and just noticed it's still there. Correct example. dd ^D 0+1 records in 0+1 records out Other timing/byte counts, kb/s, etc., in this case 7 bytes (the "" is liter