OK guys, what going on here? Why is the length of dd's output file truncated if the job is paused and backgrounded? The problem is reproducible but the truncated lengths differ. It doesnt happen for if=/dev/zero Cheers, Terry. [root@fmtest]# uname -a Linux fmtest.lmb.internal 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 #1 Mon Jun 13 00:52:08 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@fmtest]# dd if=/dev/urandom of=junk100M.uran bs=1000000 count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out [root@fmtest]# ls -l junk100M.uran -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100000000 Aug 18 17:54 junk100M.uran [root@fmtest]# dd if=/dev/urandom of=junk100M.uran bs=1000000 count=100 & [1] 4516 [root@fmtest]# 100+0 records in 100+0 records out [1] Done dd if=/dev/urandom of=junk100M.uran bs=1000000 count=100 [root@fmtest]# ls -l junk100M.uran -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100000000 Aug 18 17:54 junk100M.uran [root@fmtest]# dd if=/dev/urandom of=junk100M.uran bs=1000000 count=100 Suspended [root@fmtest]# bg [1] dd if=/dev/urandom of=junk100M.uran bs=1000000 count=100 & [root@fmtest]# 99+1 records in 99+1 records out [1] Done dd if=/dev/urandom of=junk100M.uran bs=1000000 count=100 [root@fmtest]# ls -l junk100M.uran -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99506220 Aug 18 17:55 junk100M.uran
