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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com>
To: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
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Subject: Re: more dd(1) weirdness 
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On Tue, 06 Apr 1999 10:51:08 -0400, Brian Feldman wrote:

> When did this start happening?

I have no idea. I just know that there are a good number of PR's
describing the problem (see kern/10828), and at least one of them
contains followup from bde, claiming that writes beyond the end of a
block device are known to cause problems. The claims are certainly
supported by the few tests I tried out on my machines here.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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