Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > The difference in time between the two is measurable on my system, but > it's only a few milliseconds (for 4096 bytes). So maybe it's not worth > worrying about (though as a general technique, it does make me worry > that it's easy to get wrong in a way that will fail racily). Yeah, GNU dd has iflag=fullblock, but if we assume GNU, we can safely assume "head -c", so I do not think of a way to do this portably enough. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html