bug#81269: dd (coreutils 9.7): incorrect elapsed time reporting causes impossible throughput (7.9 GB/s)

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On 2026-06-19 00:54, Paul Eggert wrote:
> from dd's point of view, it asked for the time and got the wrong time 
> from the kernel.

On looking into this a bit more, my guess is that the underlying kernel 
and/or firmware bug is not likely to be fixed any time soon, so I 
installed the attached workaround to coreutils. Please give it a try.


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