Dear sirs:
I send you a bug report.
# DESCRIPTION
Bug in dd: it sends wrong messages to stderr.
For example, when I do backups, I see "errors" from dd... that really aren't.
# WAY TO REPRODUCE THE BUG
A user can execute:
partition=$(mount | awk '$2=="on" && $3=="/" {print $1}')
sudo dd
Hello:
> > when I do backups, I see "errors" from dd... that really aren't.
> > [...]
> > 1+0 records in
> > 1+0 records out
> > 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0,000129625 s, 3,9 MB/s
> > [...]
>
> > You have a point, but I'm afraid that dd is documented to behave
> that way, and it's part of the POS
> Sorry, but dd is older than POSIX
Paul Eggert wrote "dd is [...] part of the POSIX standard" and I wrote
consequently, if the dd specification is broken, then the POSIX standard is
broken, too.
> You're 40 years too late on this one.
This kind of condescending attitudes do not improve matters.
Thanks, Eric Blake, for your explanations.
About what the "conversation" really was, you made clear that there was
another person, "Pádraig", that sent a text that arrived to some people but
not to other ones (at least me, maybe because he sent an e-mail and I wasn't
in the "recipient list"), s
Dear sirs:
This bugs is causing errors since many years ago (at least twelve (!)
[https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139861]), and let's face
it, if we don't change the point of view it will never get solved. Meanwhile,
the effects of this bug will keep on damaging the works of L
