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bug in shred?
From: |
Ben Elliston |
Subject: |
bug in shred? |
Date: |
Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:51:38 +1100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.2.5.1i |
The man page for shred indicates that -x prevents shred from rounding
up to the "nearest block size", however without -x, shred fails to
shred block devices when the device size is not a multiple of the
block size. The final write() fails and shred subsequently fails.
Perhaps shred should assume -x when the file to shred is not a regular
file?
Ben
- bug in shred?,
Ben Elliston <=