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

Collin Funk <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:39:45 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paul Eggert <[email protected]> writes:

> On 2026-06-20 12:39, Collin Funk wrote:
>> Unless a distribution picked up that patch, which I would find
>> surprising, his version uses gettimeofday.
>
> But that patch was about shred whereas this bug report is about dd.

Oops, I vaguely remember making some changes to 'dd' around that time,
and probably mixed them up without viewing the commit message too much.

Collin