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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:00:10 GMT
From:      Tri Brotoharsono <tbh@ittelkom.ac.id>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   bin/130857: /bin/dd if=/dev/acd0 returned error "invalid parameter"
Message-ID:  <200901220600.n0M60ARB006714@www.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <200901220610.n0M6A31k013844@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         130857
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       /bin/dd if=/dev/acd0 returned error "invalid parameter"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 22 06:10:03 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tri Brotoharsono
>Release:        FreeBSD i386 7-STABLE
>Organization:
IT Telkom
>Environment:
FreeBSD broto.stttelkom.ac.id 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #6: Wed Jan 21 13:22:21 WIT 2009     broto@broto.stttelkom.ac.id:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
Invoking command /bin/dd with input file CDROM device file returned invalid parameter

Example:
# dd if=/dev/acd0 of=dd.iso
dd: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.000080 secs (0 bytes/sec)
#

>How-To-Repeat:
dd if=/dev/acd0 of=<output file>

>Fix:
cd /usr/src/bin/dd
patch < /path/to/patchfile
make install


Patch attached with submission follows:

--- dd.c	2009-01-22 12:27:26.000000000 +0700
+++ dd.c.orig	2009-01-22 12:27:17.000000000 +0700
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
 		in.name = "stdin";
 		in.fd = STDIN_FILENO;
 	} else {
-		in.fd = open(in.name, O_RDONLY);
+		in.fd = open(in.name, O_RDONLY, 0);
 		if (in.fd == -1)
 			err(1, "%s", in.name);
 	}


>Release-Note:
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