> It's not a bug, it is an undocumented feature, IMO. > When you give an offset which is larger than the file size, it will wrap > back. Then it's still buggy. [mike@laptop ~]$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=testfile bs=1 count=42 42+0 records in 42+0 records out 42 bytes (42 B) copied, 0.000216179 s, 194 kB/s [mike@laptop ~]$ hexdump -Cv testfile -s 42 0000002a bb b0 ba 50 fe 70 f8 d9 f7 96 36 49 e9 74 c7 bd |...P.p....6I.t..| 0000003a 82 cb 19 64 a6 30 53 29 d2 fa 08 e3 f4 26 7f de |...d.0S).....&..| 0000004a bb 2c f2 df 7c a7 8c 6e 66 01 |.,..|..nf.| 00000054 [mike@laptop ~]$ hexdump -Cv testfile -s 43 0000002a -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
