[2275] in Athena Bugs
dd (VS2 6.2)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed May 24 12:53:36 1989
From: <mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 24 May 89 12:53:24 EDT
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
dd won't take a value so large that it is negative if treated as a
signed number. I was trying to use dd to copy some bits out of kernel
space with the following command:
dd if=/dev/kmem of=/tmp/kernel count=558312 skip=2097152k
which should have read 0x80000000 through 0x800884e8 into a tmp file.
Instead it produced:
dd: argument -2147483648 out of range
-Mark
