Error reported dd'ing close of end of block device with skip

[Eric Blake]

> 
> Btw., I just applied a patch which implements O_DIRECT, which will be
> available in the next snapshot.  The same restriction as on Linux
> applies, which is, the buffers used in read/write operations must be
> sector-aligned.  Note that using O_DIRECT requires to rebuild the
> application, so you'll be unable to experiment with this using the
> current versions of dd(1).

I get the hint.  coreutils-5.93-2 will be out as soon as I can rebuild it
against a new snapshot.

--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin corerutils maintainer

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