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Bug#629994: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#629994: linux-image-2.6.39-1-amd64: sendfile returns early without user-visible reason)



On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 16:06 +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
[...]
> I can understand if debian doesn't want to fix this bug. But corrupting
> data when users try to rescue their data with a too large dd blocksize
> is clearly too important to let people like you just make blatant wrong
> statements and close valid bugreports.
[...]

So really you're surprised by the way dd handles short reads.  And I
agree that it is surprising.  But that is a problem (arguably a bug) in
dd, not the kernel.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison

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