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Re: Error reported dd'ing close of end of block device with skip


On Dec  6 15:56, Loh, Joe wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> Here's the second part of the problem.  The follow on from a previous
> issue observed as reported in "Size difference reported by
> /proc/partitions and lseek(SEEK_END) on block device."

Searching the archive 

  http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdig&words=dd+eom

reveals a thread "Bug in dd ?? at EOM" which starts here:

  http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00878.html

Btw, have you tried the latest snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ ?


Corinna

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