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Re: Bug in dd ?? at EOM
Corinna Vinschen skrev:
> On Sep 26 12:08, Dave Korn wrote:
>> ----Original Message----
>> >From: Bengt-Arne Fjellner
>> >Sent: 26 September 2005 11:43
>>
>> > When using dd with flags conv=noerror,sync
>> > It tries reading after the disc ends.
>> >
>> > This line in cygwin tries reading past end of media:
>> > dd if=/dev/sdd of=kkkkkk bs=512 skip=156280250 conv=noerror,sync
>> > dd: reading `/dev/sdd': Input/Output error
>> > 21120+0 records in
>> > 21120+0 records out
>> > 10813440 bytes (11 MB) copied, 1.151 seconds, 9.4 MB/s
>> > dd: reading `/dev/sdd': Input/Output error
>> > 21120+1 records in
>> > 21121+0 records out
>> > repeats "forever"
>> >
>>
>> > Stops at end of disk. Whos wrong?
>>
>> There is very definitely a problem with cygwin vs. dd, which I'm
>> investigating. I've seen the same thing with CF memory cards, and initially
>> thought it was directly related to the memcard driver, but I was becoming
>> convinced it's a generic problem with cygwin's readv, and since you've found
>> it shows up on hard drives as well, that confirms it for me. I'll get round
>> to it late tonight.
>
> I've applied a patch which tries to workaround the strange behaviour of
> Win32 ReadFile when reading beyond EOF. Please give the next developers
> snapshot a try.
>
>
> Corinna
>
Works for me now with latest snapshot.
Havent test yet with a failing disk though.
Thanks.
--
Bengt-Arne Fjellner
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