Re: [PATCH] delaying dd allocation

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 01/23/2013 11:48 AM, Ondrej Oprala wrote:
> Hi Bernhard,
> thanks for the remarks. Also, you were right about the corner case, the 
> succession of commands
> $ touch a
> $ dd if=a seek=1 bs=1
> $ ^D
> actually caused a segfault. Sorry, I didn't notice it before.
> 
> I added a few lines to alloc_obuf, which cover the case when the initial 
> ibuf allocation is skipped but
> obuf needs to be allocated and is to be set to ibuf and removed the 
> newly redundant check before memset.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ondrej

Hi Padraig,

I'm afraid this one slipped from my/our list. ;-/

AFAIR that last patch was okay, but we should have a look
on it again. Do you think we should include it in 8.21?

Have a nice day,
Berny