Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> There's a known bug in dd where it incorrectly attempts to truncate
> the output file even though it's a block device.
dd also attempts to truncate a character device, therefore fails in the
same way.
The kernel should probably return EINVAL for this rather than EPERM.
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:23:36 -0600 (CST), Thomas Molina wrote:
>[1.] One line summary of the problem: seek= parameter for dd under 2.4.0
>gives permission denied error
>[2.] Full description of the problem/report:I was creating a new
>root+boot disk for 2.4.0 this evening. I issued the command:
[1.] One line summary of the problem: seek= parameter for dd under 2.4.0
gives permission denied error
[2.] Full description of the problem/report:I was creating a new
root+boot disk for 2.4.0 this evening. I issued the command:
dd if=/tmp/rootfs.gz of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k seek=335
and got the error m
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