"Dmitry V. Levin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Here is a simple test case to illustrate the issue:
Thanks for that nice test case. I hand to change your "/bin/true" to
"sleep 10" to reproduce the situation on Solaris 10. For what it's
worth, GNU dd (coreutils 5.94) behaves like Solaris 10 dd h
While working on a prototype for a static analysis tool, we found the
following issue in dd.c of coreutils version 5.94.
The assignment in the following line of the function iwrite() has no
effect (line number 755 of dd.c):
nwritten = -1;
Right after the assignment is a 'break' stateme
Felix Rauch Valenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While working on a prototype for a static analysis tool, we found the
> following issue in dd.c of coreutils version 5.94.
>
> The assignment in the following line of the function iwrite() has no
> effect (line number 755 of dd.c):
> nwritten
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> Still, maybe not all programs have similar rate-limiting features, so
> that this nice-extension may be useful anyway...
I agree. Maybe even as a separate program, for when you start something
important and somehow resource-intensive, so that you c
