Re: [PATCH] dd conv=unblock: print final newline consistently

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 9/10/2009 4:26 AM:
>> I don't like last-minute changes, but this seems safe, considering it's in
>> an obscure corner of dd.  Who actually uses dd's conv=unblock option?
>> Of those precious few, who would notice the additional newline that
>> dd-with-this-patch now prints for most combinations of output size
>> and conversion block size?
>>
>> Comments welcome.
>>
>> BTW, this change makes GNU dd compatible with the vendor dd from at
>> least Solaris 10 and FreeBSD.
>
> Sounds like a good reason to me.  And certainly more consistent with other
> tools (I always get annoyed when Solaris sed refuses to operate on
> trailing data that does not end in newline).  I didn't see anything wrong
> with the patch.

Thanks for the review.
I've pushed that.

I'm expecting to release coreutils-7.6 tomorrow,
probably with the addition only of the documentation
(du,df etc --help) changes we're discussing.

Currently, we're at gnulib (v0.0-2549-g2c90f1a) for the submodule.
None of the patches since then seemed to be essential to coreutils
on non-mingw/cygwin systems.  Let me know if you'd like to use
a newer version.