Interesting shenanigans

[George Toft]

"der.hans" wrote:
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> Am 10. Jan, 2003 schw=E4tzte George Toft so:
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> > "David A. Sinck" wrote:
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> > >  dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3Doink
> > >  yes 'abcdabcd' > oink
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> > I was recording streaming media from the Internet.  If I used xmms, i=
t
> > would get to 2.1G and segfault.  Using dd, I could create a 4 GB file=
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> > Using mplayer, I can create a 4 GB mp3 (my current stream is 25890365=
44
> > bytes in size - clearly larger than 2.1 GB).  So it is not the
> > filesystem - it is the application's ability to deal with large files=
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> > xmmx cannot, mplayer can.  dd can, and apparently, yes cannot.
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> That wasn't due to 'yes', it was due to the shell via redirection.
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> ciao,
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> der.hans
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You are correct - I realized this just moments ago.

George

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