Hello, Am Montag, 21. Oktober 2013 schrieb Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a. Dimstar:
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.
/dev/null does not even start to run ;-) # dd if=/dev/null of=/tmp/foo bs=100 count=1 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 7.7241e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s For everything else, see my non-random sig ;-) *SCNR* Regards, Christian Boltz -- Immerwieder der gleiche Anfaengerfehler: /dev/null ist fuer Backup, /dev/zero ist fuer Restore. [J. P. Meier] translated: Always the same beginner's error again: /dev/null is for backup, /dev/zero is for restore. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org