From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 15 21:10:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F751541A; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 21:05:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA01306; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 00:05:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 00:05:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Dan Nelson Cc: Bakul Shah , bde@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G In-Reply-To: <19990915135647.A84130@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Dan Nelson wrote: > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/dd/dd.c,v > > revision 1.17 > date: 1999/06/19 19:49:32; author: green; state: Exp; lines: +25 -21 > Miscellaneous dd(1) changes: mainly fixing variable types (size_t, > ssize_t, off_t, int, u_int64_t, etc.). dd(1) should now work properly > with REALLY big amounts of data. > > Should be a -stable candidate by now (3 months of testing?) I think so. It would be nice to have all dd(1) excepting the "file typing" changes backported to 3.3-STABLE (or is it -RELEASE?) All I'd like is Bruce's okay on it, as well as Jordan's. Hmm, I noticed that I don't use two spaces after the end of sentences as many others do and I always _thought_ I did. I guess it's mainly LyX/TeX's fault :) -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / "Any sufficiently advanced bug is \ green@FreeBSD.org | indistinguishable from a feature." | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! \ -- Rich Kulawiec / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message