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Re: [ITP] ddrescue 1.3
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 12:39:24 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ITP] ddrescue 1.3
- References: <464CAD1B.8030402@t-online.de> <464DF895.3040304@t-online.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On May 18 21:03, Christian Franke wrote:
>
> >I would like to contribute the GNU ddrescue package:
> >(http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html)
>
> During further testing, I found that ddrescue segfaults when reading
> from /dev/sdX without specifying the correct raw sector size (-b 2048).
>
> This is not an issue in ddrescue but an issue in Cygwin's lseek which
> may also affect 'dd'.
>
> I posted a patch to cygwin-patches.
Do you want to ITP ddrescue nevertheless?
Corinna
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