21 Oct
2013
21 Oct
'13
17:22
On 2013-10-21 16:32, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a. Dimstar wrote:
Quoting "Carlos E. R." <>:
The 'surprise' to most is not really dd's behavior, but the fact that /dev/random can 'run out of data', which is different to /dev/null.
Yes, but I expected dd to simply wait.
you have to tell dd about your expectation with iflag=fullblock :)
Sigh... :-)
Different use-cases.. some need to be specified clearly.
Yep. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)