On 07/18/2013 02:03 AM, ffx wrote: > Is it the expected behaviour to have a success exit code when skip fails, > even with the notice message "cannot skip..."?
That's the change that was put in a few years ago, yes: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=460ebb078ed7bf249af745d8725d6c37e7f15b57 As the changelog says, POSIX doesn't say what to do in this situation. Traditional 'dd' (e.g., Solaris 11.1) exits with status 3 (!).
