K 10 svn:author V 5 green K 8 svn:date V 27 1999-09-16T05:12:59.000000Z K 7 svn:log V 335 Let count=-something fail, while count=0 may succeed, thus making dd(1) useful as a seeking-tool as well as its many other uses. Previously, dd(1) would succeed with count=0, but wouldn't get to the point that blocks were to be read/written. This is a more useful behavior, and this specific case doesn't seem to be handled by POSIX. END