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To: Cchsieh <cch@market.net.tw>
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Subject: Re: When dd writes write-protected floppy (in 3.0R) 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 19:45:26 -0800
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>    When I use dd to write a write-proteced floppy in FreeBSD 3.0 RELEASE,
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>    I can not stop the process by press Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Z, or "kill -9 dd-pid".
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>    Is this a bug?

   Probably. The kernel should return EROFS to dd.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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