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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Are We Back to the "Wars" Now ?
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:32:46 +0100
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On 2024-11-24 20:14, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> For example,
> 
>    head -c $((1024*1024*1024)) /dev/urandom | sha256sum
> 
> puts a gigabyte of data through a pipe, but at no point does anything
> allocate anywhere close to a gigabyte of storage of any kind.

With "dd .... -bs=1G" the program size is 1G in ram. Not a pipe, though.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.