dd curiosity

David J. MacKenzie djm at eng.umd.edu
Tue Jan 2 14:43:41 AEST 1990


With if=myfile dd can use lseek to skip.
With if=/dev/rdsk/0p1 perhaps it either can't use lseek or thinks it
can't, so uses read to skip instead.  Just a guess.
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David J. MacKenzie <djm at eng.umd.edu>



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