From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 6 7:53:37 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 8E0AE1510C for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 07:53:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA50294; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 10:51:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 10:51:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more dd(1) weirdness In-Reply-To: <23122.923407937@axl.noc.iafrica.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 Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 12:07:09 -0400, Brian Feldman wrote: > > > I think I've fixed all of the dd(1) weirdness, and these patches should be > > committed (except for the part about block device lseeking, that should be > > better thought out now). > > When you say "I've fixed all of the dd(1) weirdness", does that mean you > believe your patches fix the reboots that occur when one tries to write > past the end of a block device, eg ``dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0''? When did this start happening? I meant only dd itself, but I didn't know that trying to write past the end of a bdev crashes you now... then again, you're SUPPOSED to use a cdev to do that. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \__ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message