thank you for bringing it up! i wasn't even aware of this potential problem, and I use bs= count= and skip= seek= (sk"i"p means "input") through pipes across th

thank you for bringing it up! i wasn't even aware of this potential problem, and I use bs= count= and skip= seek= (sk"i"p means "input") through pipes across the net aaaallll the time for decades. it pretty much seems iflag=fullblock is a requirement if you want the counts to work, even though the failure times might be rare