dd of=/dev/stdout cause Illegal seek
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Description
$ dd if=/etc/pacman.conf of=/dev/stdout
dd: failed to seek in output file: Illegal seek
GNU shows the content of input.
Maybe, caused by
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/877f656ae15810a8df19b3c7f7726480ddea6f8d/src/uu/dd/src/dd.rs#L1440-L1452 ?
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Start with src/uu/dd/src/dd.rs around lines 1440-1452 and reproduce the command using /dev/stdout as the output. Compare the behavior with GNU dd, then verify that the command prints the input contents without failing with an Illegal seek error.
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- rust
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- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
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