On Sat Oct 20, 2001 at 01:03:12AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:45:39AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > >
> > > busybox dd does not produce output like GNU dd.
> >
> > So you have specifics? I've not seen a bug report from you.
>
> well it at least didn't used to display any output.
I'm sure from previous emails that you hate me, and it is obvious you hate
busybox. Thats fine and I really don't care. But this is complete nonsense.
Here is GNU dd:
[andersen@dillweed busybox]$ /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo bs=1k count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
And here is the latest busybox:
[andersen@dillweed busybox-0.60.1]$ ./busybox dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo bs=1k count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
And here is busybox from _2_ years ago:
[andersen@dillweed busybox-0.40]$ ./busybox dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo bs=1k count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
And here is busybox-0.25 from back in 1998 when Bruce was still maintaining it:
[andersen@dillweed busybox-0.25]$ ln -fs ./busybox dd
[andersen@dillweed busybox-0.25]$ cat /dev/zero | ./dd bs=1k count=100 > /tmp/foo
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
> but parsing some basically informative verbosity output from a utility
> is a damned fragile kludge of a way to do something,
Umm. What possible good would it do to parse dd output? Check the
return code. or stat the output file if you are paranoid.
-Erik
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